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> Kian-Tat Lim wrote: > The problems are: > > 1) Without surrounding context, it is not possible to determine > whether an unprefixed name belongs to no namespace or to the > default namespace. > > 2) There are two kinds of names: names belonging to no namespace > and names belonging to a namespace. > > Killing default namespaces only takes care of problem #1. > > Killing "no namespace" names in namespaced documents takes care > of both problems simultaneously. > > Default namespaces are not evil; they are just a syntactic > shorthand or minimization. No-namespace names are the true evil. I don't see the problem with #2; it's up to the application to deal with. The fundamental problem with default namespaces is that it complicates expanding QNames, a fact that has polluted layered specs as illustrated. -aaron http://staff.develop.com/aarons
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