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> I agree. It is a radical change. However, the reasoning behind it was that > you currently have no way of using attributes defined in the default > namespace, which seems counter-intuitive to me. "no way" is putting it too strongly. You just have to declare a prefix and use that. Same is true to refer to such elements in Xpath it's quite common to declare the same namesapce with "" and with a non empty prefix. > In the end, however, I agree with Dare that the better thing would be to get > rid of default namespaces. "default namespace" is just a namespace which has a current binding to a prefix of "" together with a syntactic quirk that if the prefix is "" then you omit the ":" isn't it? David _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.
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