Re: Low-hanging fruit: compulsory namespaces

[Tim Bray <Tim.Bray@xxxxxxx>]

On Jul 14, 2004, at 8:59 AM, Bill de hÓra wrote:

> I would expect an utterance along the lines of 'inside Atom, you 
> SHOULD qualify your non-namespace markup with xmlns=""' to aid 
> robustness and increase happiness all round.

Hmm... maybe I'm unusually lucky but I just haven't been bitten by 
things going wrong in this space, and I think I use a reasonably 
vanilla selection of XML tools.  So I'm still uncomfortable with 
putting it in an RFC.  On the other hand, if Bill is one of many who 
get bitten by this kind of thing and would like a good-practice note, 
speak on up. -Tim