Article:		Cracks in the Foundation
Subject:		Not compelling?
Date:		2006-11-14 15:58:02
From:		mikeday
Response to: Not compelling?
"DocBook, HTML, Atom, RSS, and Dublin Core all have elements called 'title' that mean different things." Very true, but does it matter? This multitude of title elements each occur in different contexts. If you have a title element inside a head element inside an html element, does it really need to be explicitly qualified with the XHTML namespace for you to recognise it as an HTML title? Why not use context for disambiguation instead of requiring globally unique names for everything?

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• Not compelling?
  2007-01-29 20:43:03 rpbourret
  
  Because keeping a context stack is much, much harder than simply comparing the URI and local name of the element or attribute at hand with the one already in your code.

  
  And there's no guarantee it will be correct. Even if you expect a particular "p" element at a certain place in an XML document, there's no guarantee that an unnamespaced p element will be the one you want. Good luck if it uses a different content model.