• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• To: Marc.McDonald@D..., xml-dev@i...
• Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 22:34:24 -0700

At 05:49 PM 9/9/99 -0700, Marc.McDonald@D... wrote:
>	And if the elements 'a', 'table' and 'tr' were not in my own XML
>language why would I need to use a namespace at all? If there's no ambiguity
>there is no need to use a namespace.

Because presumably there will be software around that will do the
right thing with HTML automatically, based on namespace recognition.
 -Tim

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