Article:		Cracks in the Foundation
Subject:		Still a skeptic
Date:		2007-07-08 14:59:19
From:		arjunray
Yeah, me. It's going on a decade now - actually, just over, if it all started with "SD5" - and I'm still far from convinced. Or impressed. I remember how the Namespaces spec evolved by subtraction, use case after use case biting the dust through the series of drafts. The process didn't stop with the Rec, either. I might point to the numerous times my demonstrations, refutations, counterexamples and alternatives went basically unanswered on xml-dev, but I won't. Suffice it to say, showing that XML Namespaces - and colonification - are neither necessary nor sufficient to solve any problem worth solving, is simply irrelevant. It's here, and we just have to deal with it. Not warts and all, but warts and nothing else.

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