Re: [wml] CSS support and XML namespaces

[Tom Gilbert <nospam@thanx>]

* Denis Barbier (barbier@imacs.polytechnique.fr) wrote:
> Second, after reading http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/ i still do not
> undertand what XML namespaces are for.  Could a XML user explain if this
> notion is valuable for us?

http://www.jclark.com/xml/xmlns.htm is a reasonable reference on this
stuff.

Basically, it is simply to prevent collisions when multiple documents
are merged. So if an xml document describing suppliers has a <name> tag
for each one, it won't clash with the <name> tag from a document
describing clients, because one would be <supplier:name> and the other
would be <client:name>.

I guess you kinda use the same thing already, I mean what is
<perl:print> if it isn't namespace:command?

How useful it would be to you though, I can't really say, it depends
where you want to go with it ;-)

Tom.
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