Re: [Yaml-core] Simple Prefix Namespace Proposal

[why t. l. s. <yam...@wh...>]

Clark C. Evans wrote:

>| On the other hand, insisting that %ns mean a tagging entity further
>| increases the direction that a prefix is not simply a syntactical
>| device. The %TAG was clearly a purely such a device - you simply
>| concatenated the prefix with the suffix, and each could be anything at
>| all so you had no possible illusion of semantics.
>
>This mechanism was also compatible with T.Onoma's need, but didn't
>help solve the splitting problem; I suppose, what the emitter 
>should have is a way to provide the 'handle' / 'prefix'.  Ok.
>  
>
I'm okay with either solution.  Even if prefixes end up with the ability 
to represent a full path, I'll just have the emitter prefix domains 
rather than scanning nodes to find out where I can cut corners.  I can 
do that now as well.  And your idea is good.  So we can drop that issue.

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