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> I'll take a whack at that troll. The SGML-heads tried to make > namespaces > global and (IIRC, use a syntax other than attributes). But here's Tim > Berners-Lee's opinion: > > http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Extensible.html#Local > It was a nice aim, but it failed miserably, because you can't cut a fragment out of an XML document and paste it elsewhere without knowing all the namespace declarations that are in scope for that fragment. I've just had to throw out a modification made to Saxon by a well-intentioned user who failed to realise this. Mike Kay
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