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

Ian Davis lists at iandavis.com
Tue May 1 11:30:47 PDT 2007


On 01/05/2007 17:03, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
> 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).
> 

Yes. Of course I understand the distinction between code and content. 
But I suggested Java and Perl practices as illustrations of conventions 
for namespacing things. I'm interested in looking at patterns of naming 
that may allow more decentralised collaboration.

Ian



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