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Simon St.Laurent wrote: [[ The namespaces specification made a simple but horrid mistake in failing to recognize the close relationship between an attribute and its containing element. That there is a difference between: <x:foo x:bar="bogus"/> and: <x:foo bar="bogus"/> seems like yet another consequence of a disastrous specification. ... It's time to start fixing stuff instead of just letting bad decisions perpetuate themselves. In practice, I really doubt that this will break ANY applications. ]] It has been generally acknowledged that you are correct in that there _ought not_ be such a distinction but the problem is that changing the specification at this stage of the game, actually would break any number of real world programs e.g. <xsl:template match="x:foo[@x:bar]"> ... now perhaps such XSLT could be recognized and auto- xformed into: <xsl:template match="x:foo[@bar]"> ... but I'm sure that I've written something like the above any number of times. Jonathan
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