Namespaced component libraries

[oscarlevin]

Issue: there are lots of Doenet components, which is good because it promotes semantic markup. But we probably don't want components for everything (<kenken size="6"> would be better than hacking the graph element, but authors writing a calculus problem don't need to see this as an option). Currently there are chemistry-specific components.

Idea: introduce namespaces for components. If someone wants to add a component for kenken, maybe also for sudoku, they create a namespace puzzle so they would author <puzzle:kenken size="6"> or <puzzle xmlns="https://puzzle.doenet.org" size="6"> if they don't want to keep writing the puzzle: prefix). Not sure how to tell doenet to load the components, maybe it is done automatically. A contributor could create such a library of components and import it or let Doenet adopt it.

A first proof of concept would be to extract the chemistry components into a namespace (maybe chem). This would serve as an example for new contributions as well.

Please correct my language or let me know if I have missed part of our discussion at the session today (2026-06-03).