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Re: locating syndication feeds
On Wednesday, July 11, 2001, at 12:09 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote:
That having been said, I don't know this is a "bad" use of
namespaces; the only thing that a namespace guarantees is the
uniqueness of a qualified name within *that* document. Anything else
(including 'permission') is pure conjecture. I'm no namespaces
expert, and I'd like to talk to a few people to get a feel for this,
just to test the theory.
The people I hang out with (Dan Conolly and other W3C folks)
would kill you for that. ;-)
Seriously though, namespaces are used to bind a document to a
set of semantics... they aren't very useful if we start
inventing semantics and using other people's namespaces to say
things they didn't intend. I mean, the RSS 1.0 namespace already
has a concept of a channel element attached to it. Reusing that
element for a different purpose does not seem like a very good
idea.
At any rate, something like an attribute is probably more
appropriate; the easiest win is that it makes using XPath to find a
channel possible.
I agree.
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