[MOBY] Re: [MOBY-l] Policy on the use of prefix 'moby'?

[Paul Gordon]

I ONLY use namespace to match the tags (as namespace-aware XML should be 
done).  Whether the tag has no namespace because there is no default, or 
because its prefix resolves to an empty namespace or any other reason 
you can imagine, is inconsequential.  I try to digest things that are in 
the MOBY namespace, or in no namespace at all (a and b). 

<moby:b xmlns:moby="http://www.biomoby.org/moby">
  <a />
</moby:b>

If the default prefix was pointing to the XHTML namspace, I wouldn't try 
to digest that unprefixed tag (a), since it is neither a blank 
namespace, nor the MOBY namespace.

<moby:b xmlns:moby="http://www.biomoby.org/moby">
  <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" name="my_anchor" />
</moby:b>

>I agree with your earlier comment about being forgiving in what you
>consume, though (in fact, this is somewhat mandated by the API, in that
>you are obligated to consume more complex objects than you advertise in
>your service signature).  So, Paul, in your peer-to-peer implementation
>are you making assumptions about the namespace because there is no
>default, or because you want to be ultra-forgiving?
>  
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