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I see the point syntactically about the colonized name, and if namespaces really stopped at the syntax rather than just being silent, it might be an overwhelming point. I just think we are better off putting namespaces as the first thing to the right of 1.0, but not in it. Designing an XML application to be incompatible is probably not smart, but XML itself shouldn't have to care. len From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:elharo@m...] Leaving out namespaces does not guarantee global interoperability. It actively harms it. It is not that you must use namespaces. You are free not to use namespaces if they are not useful to you. That's OK. What is not OK, is designing XML in a way that that is incompatible with namespaces; e.g. using colonized names without declaring the prefixes. If you designed names-malformed documents, then many parsers and process will automatically reject your documents. Core is, I think, namespace well-formed documents. This includes documents that don't use namespaces at all. It does not include documents that are incompatible with namespaces.
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