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This is what my commonsense tells me would work: 1) All qualified names (element or attribute) must be prefixed 2) Unqualified names are in no namespace 3) All namespace declarations are on the document root 3a) a prefix has one, and only one, namespace associated with it in document scope 4) In cases where two or more documents are to be merged, a) if there is a prefix collision, the prefix that first appears in the merged document would take precedence, and the subsequent same-named prefix would be permuted through the remainder of the document. b) the permutation of the secondary prefix identifier(s) would be standardized 5) A namespace URI reference identifier would be of a format that is syntactically correct but guaranteed to be functionally void. 5a) A mechanism would be introduced that allows association of a namespace identifier with a functional URI(s) or other resource. Only through that mechanism would any useful tie-in to a resource through a namespace id be allowed. 5b) All proposed Recommendations would minimize, to the extent possible, dependencies on the above mechanism being operable in all environments. Please excuse if all this has been shot down somewhere in the last 7,000 messages on URI's. My reading time is limited.
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