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Hi, Michael- Michael Kay wrote: | | Namespaces are a mess that needs sorting out, | but if we're going to sort them out, a lot of discussion is | needed to agree on how it is done. Without trying to start a lengthy thread, I'm genuinely curious what this means. In what way are namespaces a mess? What issues arise due to namespaces, in practical terms. Prima facie, they seem to me to be useful and simple. I can see 2 points against them: * they increase the size of a file (though I don't think unduly so); * the idea that attributes are in a null namespace is unintuitive and I'm not sure I see why they shouldn't be in the namespace of the XML dialect where they are defined. Neither of these outweigh the utility. But maybe there's some other issues you could explain? Thanks- Doug doug.schepers@v... www.vectoreal.com ...for scalable solutions.
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