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[Eric van der Vlist] > > Thomas B. Passin said: > > > The namespace tells immediately which schema is in play. > > No, that's not always as simple. > > There isn't always a schema and even when there is a schema (or more than > one schema) there is nothing in a XML document (except maybe its public ID > which unfortunately mandates a DTD) which describes the combination used > to mix the namespaces. Eric, I do not really disagree with you, but I was responding to David M's question about real applications, and I limited my remarks to the one thing I have worked on where I am really glad that namespaces are available (not counting xslt). Cheers, Tom P
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