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[John Cowan] > > Bah. The default namespace is a mere syntactic minimization; it allows > us to pick any one prefix and eliminate it from the syntax. At the > Infoset level, prefixes are supplied because of the possible presence > of QNames in character data, but they aren't *meaningful*. > I think of the default namespace a little differently. Imagine that you have a perfectly good xml document, or schema, and now for some perfectly good reason you want it to have a namespace. It would be very annoying and tiresome to go back and apply a namespace prefix to each element, and that would be likely to break most procesing software that used to work. So the default namespace allows you to convert a document to having a namespace with minimal pain and breakage. If you look at it that way, it is a means for handling legacy markup, and no one has to use it for new work. Cheers, Tom P
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