Sunday, July 31, 2005, 4:32:11 PM, Graham wrote:
> On 31 Jul 2005, at 4:01 pm, James Cerra wrote: >> That's apparently what libxml does. As you can see, with Atom's >> namespace it >> is a mess. It is also a mess with XHTML's namespace, XSLT's >> namespace, and >> most document-oriented namespaces. > Were the RDF folks not smart enough to think of this problem and come > up with a better system or a workaround? It is an RDF/XML problem, not an RDF problem, and on the list of RDF/XML problems, there are plenty more serious ones. Anyway, it is only a problem if you are trying to use ns-qualified elements that aren't RDF/XML as input to an RDF/XML processor - or something similar. I'm not really surprised that that doesn't work too well. WebDAV does the same thing with namespaces btw[1]. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/1999OctDec/0343.html -- Dave
