On Dec 19, 2003, at 8:12 AM, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> He also points to a nice analogy from Mark Nottingham:
>
> http://www.mnot.net/blog/2003/12/06/qnames_are_evil
>
> It's good to confirm that issues derided as mere aesthetic blotches are
> capable of causing real problems for sophisticated tools - and users.
It is now crystal-clear that allowing qnames to escape from element &
attribute names into content was a terrible mistake that we're now
stuck with forever. I struggled against this idea but lost. -Tim
