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> Aren't the URIs effectively just strings as far as namespaces > are concerned? > Would it really solve any problems to use some other from of > unique string? I think it would have saved the community $zillions if namespace names were restricted to valid name characters, and if there were a permitted representation of element names that used the full namespace name rather than an alias. Rather like Java, where you have the choice of saying ContentHandler or org.xml.sax.ContentHandler. There would then be a normalized form of the document in which all the names were expanded, with no prefixes, and no namespace declarations, and that form would be VASTLY easier for applications to process. In the lexical representation you could then avoid prefixes entirely and only allow a single default namespace. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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