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> The complexity created by namespace inheritance oozes out of every > paragraph. <soapbox> The technical complexities of namespaces would virtually go away if identifiers were nothing more than short string prefixes attached to each and every qualified name (i.e., eliminate namespace scopes), where such identifiers are unique, single-purposed, and registered with a central naming authority. </soapbox> While the proposal trades technical complexity for political complexity (and costs some in XML's vaunted readability), the political issues are more tractable, IMO. Anyhow, I don't wish to fire up this permathread again; it's just that the same namespace complaints manifest themselves over and over again on this list. At least with a registry we'd have something different to kvetch about.
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