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>Anybody who is so namespace allergic that they cannot add a single "xmlns" attribute to >their document is, in my opinion, trying to make life difficult for others, not trying to >make life easy for themselves. I tried that tack for a while but found that you still get into *awful* messes downstream when writing processing code. Reason being that so many tools from SAX APIs to editors to XPath processors fall over themselves to "help" you expand your namespaces creating a royal P.I.T.A. Namespaces cause more problems than they fix. This has been my experience, and the experience of the 20 odd XML developers who work for Propylon over the last couple of years. Perhaps our experience is unusual but I doubt it. More often than not, when you go into new client engagements to sort out XML problems, we find XML transwrecks in the hallways. Earlier somebody compared namespaces to condoms - they provide extra protection. On the contrary, I would suggest that namespaces are an STD that should be assiduously avoided. Oh, there is one way to stay sane and still use namespaces. Get all your tools from end to end from a single vendor. So much for interop. No thanks. Sean http://seanmcgrath.blogspot.com
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