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On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 21:37, Paul Prescod wrote: > I don't know the answer to this question, but the likely reason is that > they simplify the process of moving fragments of one document to another > document. An early draft of the XML namespaces recommendation proposed > using processing instructions to declare XML namespaces. While these > were simple to read and process, they weren't easy to move to other > documents. Attributes, on the other hand, are intimately attached to the > elements being moved. If you happen to grab the element with the declarations, yeah, it's easy. Otherwise you get to deal with a lot of stack-tracking. It may be a beautiful part of a coherent web architecture, but it's not much fun to write code for. But then, I think this one aspect of the namespace debate we haven't explored in a year or so. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com
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