On May 11, 2005, at 21:54, Antone Roundy wrote:
* HTML has no concept of namespaces, so when people invent a new tag, they don't give it a unique prefix. XML has namespaces, so when inventing new elements, common sense and past experience suggest putting them in a namespace under the control of the inventor.
Except it is pragmatic (in the sense of avoiding xmlns cruft) to put them in the NS of the language being extended. This is more likely happen if the original controller of the namespace neglects the language.
Case point: XHTML and WHAT WG.
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