namespaces discussions off-topic (was Re: [uf-discuss] changing abbr-design-pattern to title-design-pattern?)

[Charles Iliya Krempeaux]

Hello Tantek,

I think Ian may have meant... what about using (for Microformats)
namespaces with pre-defined (and never changing) namespace prefixes
(like in Java and Perl), instead of variable namespace prefixes (like
in XML).


See ya

On 5/1/07, Tantek Çelik <tantek at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> On 5/1/07 1:01 AM, "Ian Davis" <lists at iandavis.com> wrote:
>
> > On 01/05/2007 07:26, Tantek Çelik wrote:
> >> It's been tried by numerous groups, before microformats, and after.  It's
> >> even been tried in the context of RSS and RDF, and in practice people write
> >> scrapers that look for namespace prefixes as if they are part of the element
> >> name, not as mere shorthands for namespace URIs.
> >
> > Isn't this a narrow view of namespaces, i.e. the XML viewpoint. There
> > are many types of non-URI/QName namespacing mechanisms such as Java
> > package name conventions, Perl module conventions etc. Are those
> > offtopic too?
>
> This is why I precisely said (in the paragraph that was not quoted), with
> emphasis added:
>
> "Namespaced **content** on the Web has failed."
>
> AFAIK, Java package name conventions, Perl module conventions are *not*
> considered *content* that is served on the web.  They're code.  And they're
> not served, they're executed server-side.
>
> Namespaced **content** has failed because it encourages proprietary
> siloization of data, rather than interoperability.  Namespaces perform a
> very different function in code (with different needs), despite the cosmetic
> similarities (use of ":" etc.).
>
>
> >> If you want to carry on a theoretical discussion of namespaces, please do so
> >> elsewhere, for in practice, discussing them is a waste of time, and
> >> off-topic for microformats lists.
> >
> > Apologies for this post. If the answer to the above is yes then this
> > will be the last from me on this topic.
>
> Why would a discussion of namespaced *code* be *on* topic?  How is it
> relevant to microformats?  At a minimum, it would be more appropriate for
> the microformats-dev list than the microformats-discuss list, but even then
> I fail to see how it is germane to the domain.
>
> Tantek



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