Re: Not invented here.

[Joe Gregorio <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill de hÓra wrote:

> Greg Stein wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 01:11:12PM -0700, Russell Beattie wrote:
> >
> > > ...
> > > If this is the case (that Atom is adding only a very small number of 
> > > tags) why isn't Dublin Core the default namespace? Makes it a lot 
> > > cleaner...
> >
> >
> >
> > That is simply how somebody writes it down. It doesn't matter whether it
> > is the default namespace of not. 
>
>
> Yes it does.
>
>
> > An XML parser won't present it to the
> > computer as "oh, this was the default namespace".
>
>
> A (namespace aware) XML parser has to do exactly that. A default 
> namespace effects different scoping rules to prefixed namespaces [1].

I don't think that is what was being referred to. I believe
the assertion was that the following two documents
are equivalent to the consumer post-XML parsing:

<feed
  xmlns="xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/ns#";
  xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";>
 <dc:title>dive into mark</dc:title>
</feed>


<atom:feed
  xmlns:atom="xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/ns#";
  xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";>
 <title>dive into mark</title>
</atom:feed>

	
	-joe

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