Post #3241199
2023-03-20 23:14 UTC
@davew@mastodon.social @bosak@flx.masto.host
Apparently you’re in a minority. They’re by a wide margin the most-hated among all the basic XML stuff.
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@davew@mastodon.social 2023-03-20 23:17
@timbray@hachyderm.io @bosak@flx.masto.host do you have any idea why?
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@ndw@mastodon.social 2023-03-21 05:59
@timbray@hachyderm.io @davew@mastodon.social @bosak@flx.masto.host The haters are wrong. Does the imposed pseudo-attribute synax have some drawbacks, yes. Could it have been a little simpler, maybe. But if we didn’t have namespaces, we’d have six different ad hoc, incompatible "namespace" solutions. Because you need them for XSLT and XProc and Schematron and XML Schema and RELAX NG and Atom and SVG and MathML and XLink, and probably OOXML, and and and…
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@subtl@aus.social 2023-03-21 19:58
@timbray@hachyderm.io @davew@mastodon.social @bosak@flx.masto.host I loved namespaces - when they worked. They tended to be poorly supported and not well documented.