Re: Namespaces

Andreas Hartmann <[email protected]> writes:

Very nice! Our first LEP (Lenya Enhancement Proposal).

> 2. Abstract
> 
> The goal of this proposal is to use XML namespaces whenever this
> seems useful, especially for documents that
> - occur in the same processing context as other documents
> - are processed by XSLT stylesheets
> 
> 4. Specification
> 
> The Lenya developers define a common base URI for all namespaces
> that are specifically created for the Lenya CMS.
> A documentation page is created where all namespaces are listed.

That makes perfect sense.

> 6. Rationale
> 
> I would suggest using an HTTP URI as the base URI with an HTML
> page (maybe redirecting to the Lenya namespaces list).

Soemthing along the line of http://www.lenya.org/xml/lenya/1.0?

> 7. Backwards Compatibility
> 
> In most cases documents will be not backwards compatible.

That's what I was affraid of.

> I would suggest to use namespaces from now on for all
> newly invented document types.

A perfect example of this is the page envelope. Do we use namespaces
in it? That means we'll probably have to change all xsps + a few java
classes on top of it. We cannot do this for a single publication since
they share this code. 

This has to be a concerted effort. It can probably be done in a couple
of days, but I thought we were working towards a stable release?

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