Bill de hÓra <> wrote:
| Seairth Jacobs wrote:
|> The document's primary vocabulary is never namespaced.
|
| No reason for this that I can think of. Once you're using namespaces,
| you don't gain much by only using them sometimes. [...] Once you use
| namespaces you should use them as given, and be prepared to absorb
| the overhead involved.
In a sense, this was predicted, going on six years ago. Experience has
exposed the pretense that colonification is not syntax (as in including
':' among name-start characters and blithely suggesting that namespaced
stuff can be treated as if they weren't there.)
| Adding processing rules and constraints over and above the Namespaces
| spec hasn't been a winning approach in my experience - the singe
| exception being the elimination of the default namespace.
"Default namespace" was an integral part of the pretense. Time to give it
up.
