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Most commenters I've read believe an overhaul is needed. You should read Derek Denny-Brown's blog. Dare referenced it and sys-con picked it up for an article. http://nothing-more.blogspot.com/2004/10/where-xml-goes-astray.html Quoting Derek: "It pushes an immense burden of complexity onto the APIs and XML reader/writer implementations. Supporting XML Namespaces introduces significant complexity in the parsers, because it forces parsers to parse the entire start-tag before returning any text information. It complicates XML stores, such as DOM implementations, because the XML Namespace specification only discusses parsing XML, and introduces a number of serious complications to edit scenarios. It complicates XML writers, because it introduces new constraints and ambiguities." He expands on the topic in the top blog "Loving and Hating XML Namespaces" where after solid examples he says that 'cleverness' may be the root of the problems. len From: Alessandro Triglia [mailto:sandro@m...] When people complain about namespaces, do they mean that namespaces should not exist at all? Do they think they are useless? Or do they think they should be replaced by something else? Or do they have in mind some simple changes to the syntax, such as using URI/localname pairs everywhere?
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