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> Much more can be said about pros/cons and naming. I > personally, after getting used to it, have found it rather > convenient to use http URLs and it saved me many headaches of > having to think of yet another naming convention. I resisted "http" in namespaces for a long time because the "p" stands for "protocol" and this gives the misleading impression that some network communication is involved. But I know when I've lost a fight, and I now go along with the flow. It's stupid, but you get used to it. Historically, there has always been a camp that believed that namespace URIs should in fact identify a resource, for example a RDDL document. In fact, namespaces allocated by W3C do (by convention) always identify a document that gives you a description of the namespace and a pointer to its specification. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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