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> I note that the recommendation specifies a notion which is untenable. > ... > I do take issue with claims that this set does not exist. I suspect that the reason for not calling it a namespace is that you are supposed to think of it as multiple sets which are not distinguished in the syntax. That is, if you have two documents that contain the element {http://www.w3.org/1998/math/MathML}math then they are references to the same element in the same set (the mathml namespace) However if you have two documents referencing {}math then arguably they are not intended to be the same element, It may be that they are in different sets of elements but that the XML namespace syntax does not distinguish that (maybe the application does using other info, eg the doctype). In some contexts it makes sense to identify all {}math as being the math element in a "" namespace (which is effectively what XPath does although it avoids that terminology) (and I wouldn't have minded if that's what the namespace spec had done) But I don't think the "no namespace" statement is entirely bogus or contradicting the rest of the namespace spec. David _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.
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