Re: [docbook] DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 20 May 2003

[steven.cogorno@sun.com (Steven Cogorno)]

Yann Dirson said:
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> On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 09:35:52PM +0200, Tobias Reif wrote:
> > But SGML has no namespaces AFAIK.
> 
> Hm, namespaces are just a naming convention on elements and
> attributes, and as such there's no reason I know of not to apply them
> to SGML as well...

Here's a big one:

The colon character is not a name character in standard SGML declarations. 
If DocBook use colons in the attribute names, most users would need to alter
their SGML Declarations. This isn't exactly trivial.

Steve Cogorno
Sun Microsystems