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Amy Lewis wrote: > Why are namespace declarations allowed to appear at any level in a > document? Basically so that independent components, each of which is responsible for some part of a document, can generate their part in isolation from the others. If all namespaces had to be declared at the top, as in the earliest versions of Namespaces, all components would have to have global access to spit out their chosen namespace declarations in advance, and some sort of cooperation to make sure they did not choose conflicting prefixes. > Since W3C seems really allergic to the > idea of allowing any semantic meaning be attached to namespaces Not at all. The Namespace Rec, though, is meant to be low-level. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <jcowan@r...> no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein
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