Keith's Weblog: Comments on "Why I don't grok (XML) namespaces", posted on June 3, 2003 http://keithdevens.com/weblog/archive/2003/Jun/03/Namespaces Programming en-us http://keithdevens.com/weblog http://keithdevens.com/images/kbd.gif http://keithdevens.com/weblog/archive/2003/Jun/03/Namespaces#comment11364 http://keithdevens.com/weblog/3911#comment11364 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:21:18 +0000 <p class="st-markup">Aw dear, you just made me read this crappy useless blah blah. Why did you bother to waste your and mine time? You don't even have any adds on the site <img class="smiley" src="/images/smiley_happy.gif" alt="Smiley (big smile)" /> that would make one guess... Poor old sclerotic google brought me here to finish my day in the office. I'm so annoyed I had to tell you.</p> <p class="st-markup">Name spaces are good, with their implementation it is worse.</p> <p class="st-markup">Read some stuff before you bother writing something next time. Here's a good one: <a href="http://www.sitepoint.com/print/xml-namespaces-explained/">http://www.sitepoint.com/print/xml-namespaces-explained/</a></p> <p class="st-markup">The thing is xhtml-body is pretty much the same as xhtml:body, that's just a standardised convention. It's just much more probable, that if you take a longer string, that it will be more or less unique in the given context, but you wouldn't want to write elements like &lt;this-is-my-bloody-wicked-lovable-element /&gt;, then want other people to use it in their documents, if you were not ready for a suicide. And hence namespaces coz even though a table is a table, xhtml:table is not a furniture:table while it still can be my:table</p> <p class="st-markup">Damn you really got me started...</p> <p class="st-markup">never mind, best of luck, Robert</p>