Post #3241202

@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…