• From: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@c...>
• To: "Andrew Welch" <andrew.j.welch@g...>
• Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:41:04 +0100

Original Message From: "Andrew Welch"
>
>>> <mysc:parent xmlns:mysc="mysc">
>>
>> Does that buy you much over doing:
>>
>> <mysc.parent>
>
> hmm well you do know it's in the 'mysc' namespace, whereas in the
> latter you can't be sure if its in no namespace.  And also with the
> latter, if you pasted that into another document it would take on any
> existing default namespace change.
>
> If the prefix-as-the-namespace caught on, you could envisage parsers
> falling back to using the prefix as the namespace where there is no
> existing mapping, making the xmlns optional.

Hmm indeed!  Food for thought.  Especially the pasting and adopting the 
containers default namespace.

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• References:
  • A proposal for application level XML 'namespaces'
    • From: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@c...>
  • Re: A proposal for application level XML 'namespaces'
    • From: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
  • Re: A proposal for application level XML 'namespaces'
    • From: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@g...>
  • Re: A proposal for application level XML 'namespaces'
    • From: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@c...>
  • Re: A proposal for application level XML 'namespaces'
    • From: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@g...>
  • Re: A proposal for application level XML 'namespaces'
    • From: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@c...>
  • Re: A proposal for application level XML 'namespaces'
    • From: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@g...>