RE: [dita] namespaces goals

["Paul Grosso" <pgrosso@arbortext.com>]

I'm sorry I don't have the time to delve as deeply into all
this as Eliot and Erik, but I do have some comments below.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eliot Kimber [mailto:ekimber@innodata-isogen.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, 2004 August 19 13:49
> To: dita@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [dita] namespaces goals
> 
> Don Day wrote:
> 
> > We've heard from two vendors who favor Erik's proposed 
> approach to rolling
> > out namespaces for DITA.  If you have an application that requires a
> > namespace declaration in order to function properly, please 
> respond as to
> > whether you can live with the proposal.  

As far as this vendor, I remain nervous about adding namespaces
to DITA 1.0 at all.

However, I can live with namespacing the class attribute.

I'm not sure (and I don't have the time to do an exhaustive
analysis) that I [meaning my customers and all permuatations
of integrations of DITA and Arbortext software] can live with
much any other introduction of namespaces into DITA 1.0.

If it comes to a vote, I will concur with the decision to
namespace the class attribute but vote against any other
introduction of namespaces into DITA 1.0.

paul