Re: Survey on the evolution of RSS

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From: Gerald Oskoboiny (gerald@impressive.net)
Date: Tue Sep 05 2000 - 16:12:26 PDT


On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 05:42:39PM -0400, Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote:
> [Gerald:]
> > Well, after watching HTML's dysfunctional evolution for the last
> > 7 years or so, the value of namespaces seems fairly obvious to me.
> > They just let anyone make up tags, yet do it in a way that we all
> > know what we're talking about when we use a certain tag.
>
> That's certainly a very strong assertion... and one I don't
> happen to have any faith in.

I should have written: the value of something like namespaces
seems fairly obvious to me, and XML Namespaces seem like a
reasonable solution.

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Gerald Oskoboiny <gerald@impressive.net>
http://impressive.net/people/gerald/


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