Thread:User talk:GWicke/OutputPage Microdata API/reply (3)

The need for such a class illustrates why microdata tries so hard to avoid XML namespaces ;) In general it looks quite useful to me, at least for the management of global prefixes defined on the html element.

An alternative would be to discourage manually defining / using prefixes, and simply use full URIs. For compression, we could either rely on gzip to do its thing or convert URIs to prefixed names for known (and/or globally defined) global prefixes.