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["Marshall T. Vandegrift" <llasram@xxxxxxxxx>]

Kovid etc.,

When I posted proposing namespacing OPF meta/@name values in the mobileread
EPUB support thread, what I had in mind was co-opting the document's XML
namespace declarations and groking NS prefixes used in meta/@name values.
I'm not sure that's exactly what you understood me to mean, nor am I sure
anymore that's a good way to do it.  My primary concerns now are that it
will be harder to parse (and require that parsers expose NS/prefix mappings)
and that it will be difficult to implement correctly in terms of
metadata.opf2.

My alternative proposal is to just prefix the @name values with 'calbre-'.
The '-' won't be mistaken for a namespace prefix separator and is consistent
with how OEBPS 1.x OPF @name values were made pseudo unique (at least as
expressed in MS LIT files).

-Marshall