> I'm interested in peoples' views on the potential problems outlined below
> of moving from using a '.' to a ':' as the separator between the
> 'namespace' prefix and the property name.
One thing I like a lot about . rather than colon is that it is quite plainly
different to the use of colon in xml. This is especially important given
that with 2.0 it will be increasingly easy to insert XML (whether Dublin
Core XML, RDF/XML, or something else) metadata instead of or as well as
metadata using <link/> and <meta/>. I can see two different uses of dc:date
or whatever causing confusion for anyone who has to look at the code, but
who doesn't do so often enough to be expert.
However, having read that some processors are passing "dc.date" straight to
javascript I'm now beginning to think that anything that makes such a silly
trick stop working (when it does work) is perhaps a good idea.
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