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

[Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com>]

Jirka Kosek wrote:
 > Norman Walsh wrote:
 >
 >> | But SGML has no namespaces AFAIK. I think instead of
 >> |    <sgmltag namespace="http://foobar";>...
 >> | I'd like to see
 >> |    <xmltag namespace="http://foobar";>...
 >> | or
 >> |    <elementname namespace="http://foobar";>...
 >>
 >> Yes, we should have added xmltag or renamed sgmltag years ago. But we
 >> didn't. And that's a separate RFE :-)
 >
 >
 > I was reading XML-REC yesterday to refresh it in my memory and it
 > reminded me this "xmltag" issue...
 >
 > Unfortunatelly, "xmltag" is not valid name for element according to
 > the XML Recommendation:
 >
 > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml.html#sec-common-syn
 > [...]
 > I'm personally OK with "sgmltag" element name, but if there is need
 > for something more XML related, different name must be chosen: mltag,
 > tagxml, tag?

.. or "xmtag", "elementname", "elementxml"? Naming is difficult ...

Tobi

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