RE: [syndication] Re: Thoughts, questions, and issues.

[Rael Dornfest <rael@oreilly.com>]

On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Paulo Gaspar wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ken MacLeod [mailto:ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 05:56
> > 
> > "Paulo Gaspar" <Paulo.Gaspar@krankikom.de> writes:
> > 
> > > Thinks like namespaces still can cause headaches to many people
> > 
> > Why? is it the concept or a lack of support in the tools available to
> > those people?
> > 
> > I was working with my daughter recently and needed to introduce
> > namespaces to her for some similar stuff.  She's fairly comfortable
> > with using namespaces now (in schemas others design), only after about
> > 10-15 minutes of describing them.  She's familiar with Java, so the
> > usage of DOM with namespaces was straightforward extension of that.
> > We've been working with Python more recently, and the tools for
> > namespaces in Python will soon be even easier than DOM.
> 
> Being at ease with technology is not age related. There are many examples
> of that.

Um, I believe this was meant as illlustration of fiddling with some of the
emerging NS-enabled tools, having nothing to do with Ken's daughter's age.

Rael

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