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John Cowan wrote: > Joe English scripsit: > > > * Do not use default namespace bindings > > But if only one namespace is involved, then making it the default namespace > is not pernicious. It still complicates things for applications, since the default namespace is one more piece of information they need to keep track of, the rules for reserializing need to account for (the) default namespace, et cetera. Besides, the property of only using one namespace is not preserved under all operations: if you insert an element or attribute from a new namespace, then what do you do with the previously-defaulted element names? (Actually, I would go one step further and argue that any XML vocabulary which is not designed to be mixed with elements from other vocabularies ought not to use namespaces at all. There are valid arguments against this position, of course.) --Joe English jenglish@f...
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