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Re: Pragmatic namespaces

• From: Richard Salz <rsalz@us.ibm.com>
• To: "XML Developers List" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
• Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 10:46:31 -0400

My proposal: only allow setting the default prefix, as in
      xmlns='....'

It's compatible with both HTML and XML and should not greatly complicate
existing HTML parsers. The drawbacks are that you cannot mix attributes
from a different namespace, and that if you embed clumps from xmlns A
inside B, a lot, you might get more verbose, with the emphasis on might.

      /r$

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