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Re: [docbook] Re: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 20May 2003
- From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif at pinkjuice dot com>
- To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Cc: Jirka Kosek <jirka at kosek dot cz>, Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 11:55:26 +0200
- Subject: Re: [docbook] Re: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 20May 2003
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Jirka Kosek wrote:
> Norman Walsh wrote:
>
>> | But SGML has no namespaces AFAIK. I think instead of
>> | <sgmltag namespace="http://foobar";>...
>> | I'd like to see
>> | <xmltag namespace="http://foobar";>...
>> | or
>> | <elementname namespace="http://foobar";>...
>>
>> Yes, we should have added xmltag or renamed sgmltag years ago. But we
>> didn't. And that's a separate RFE :-)
>
>
> I was reading XML-REC yesterday to refresh it in my memory and it
> reminded me this "xmltag" issue...
>
> Unfortunatelly, "xmltag" is not valid name for element according to
> the XML Recommendation:
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml.html#sec-common-syn
> [...]
> I'm personally OK with "sgmltag" element name, but if there is need
> for something more XML related, different name must be chosen: mltag,
> tagxml, tag?
.. or "xmtag", "elementname", "elementxml"? Naming is difficult ...
Tobi
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