My experience is that namespaces are useful but far too often used 
without a real need. Some people seem to like complexity. I don't.

Unless you want to live by a prefix only, you only need namespaces when 
you mix several XML languages, such as in the case of XSLT and XSL-FO 
(where you can mix in foreign content, such as SVG).

In cases where I design my own simple XML, I avoid using them, to keep 
things simple.

By the way: living by prefix only may be theoretically unsound, but, as 
an example, if your root element is xsl:stylesheet, and if it is being 
processed by an XSLT processor, then for all practical purposes it's 
obvious what the prefix xsl means.

Pieter

On 7/24/20 12:07 PM, Mukul Gandhi gandhi.mukul@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 8:18 AM Debbie Lapeyre 
> dalapeyre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dalapeyre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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> <mailto:xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Namespaces are a real problem.
>
>
> I personally, find XML namespaces functionality useful. At the moment, 
> the online downside I see for XML namespaces is, that sometimes they 
> appear verbose.
>
> We can also see, functional analogues of XML namespaces in the other 
> languages (like packages in java).
>
>
> -- 
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> Mukul Gandhi
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