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If the namespaces solution had been advanced in XML 1.0, the way out if it didn't work was to roll back to SGML and start over. Given assumptions like "internet time", "arch forms are worse" and so on, the way it was done was the way it was meant to be. There were all sorts of hypotheticals out there before XML and namespaces. The team picked these. I don't care anymore. There is too much work stacking up to start over. Thralldom is like that: shovel and push it into the next pit or be buried in it. If I had a few million to live on or no kids, I'd be a more globally concerned. But that not being the case, this year, schemas are the shovel and namespaces are the ... :-) Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Dylan Walsh [mailto:Dylan.Walsh@K...] Nice similes. Another cause is the fact that namespaces were created after the XML 1.0 Rec. This forcibly lead to a solution that was more contentious and less clean than a hypothetical "there from day one" system.
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