[Dev] Proposal: simplify parcel XML namespaces

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 05:26 PM 6/24/2005 -0700, Bryan Stearns wrote:
>Hi pje,
>
>-1 : I don't like this idea, because it conflicts with the notion that XML 
>namespaces are supposed to be URIs, disambiguated from all other namespace 
>names by the domain name embedded in them.

Then we should get rid of XML namespaces altogether here; parcel namespaces 
are *not* globally unique and never have been; repository paths and Python 
package namespace requirements prevent them from being globally unique.


>Yes, by using "parcel:" instead of "http:", you're avoiding conflicts with 
>other http URIs, but introducing the potential for conflict (however 
>unlikely) with someone else who arbitrarily breaks the same rule and picks 
>"parcel:".

I'm curious about what use cases will be satisfied by introducing 
non-Chandler XML namespaces into a parcel.xml document.  I can't rule out 
such a possibility entirely, of course, but I haven't been able to come up 
with anything that makes any sense right now.