Sam Ruby wrote:
> Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, has discussed the following in the
> context of the Hypertext Coordination Group (HCG) and at the TPAC, but I
> have not seen it discussed here:
>
>
http://www.w3.org/2009/Talks/08-quin-balisage-namespaces/(bcc: RDFa TF)
Yes, Liam' proposal is a good one.
A number of us have been discussing the "Namespace Definition files"
approach offline for a number of months. I remember that Mark Birbeck
had also brought the concept up about a year ago in a XHTML+RDFa Task
Force telecon.
While there are a number of issues to be worked out, I think this is the
right direction for the distributed extensibility debate. It provides a
solid replacement for xmlns: while requiring authors to know what a
namespace is or how to use it. It seems like this approach could be a
good compromise and it seems to be in line with requirements put forth
by WHATWG, the RDFa TF and HTML WG.
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