I'm convinced XML namespaces cause 100 times more complexity than their value. Please, please, don't reinvent them in JSON.
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Not sure I agree. If they'd been part of XML from the start, how would they have been different from modules in programming?
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Modules encapsulate. You can intermix namespaces.
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Replying to @darrel_miller
terminology is hard in 150 chars. Let's say C# namespaces or Java packages.

Aug 25, 2016 · 4:58 AM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov
I think it was QNames in type attributes for WSDL and Schemas that was the straw that broke the camels back for me today.
Replying to @stilkov
That would be like having namespace aliases in string variable values in C# that you need to resolve.
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Exactly, and that was a result of them having been bolted on afterwards. The problem might be worth being solved, though
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