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james anderson wrote: > this discussion reaches back quite far. i was unable to coax the=20 > revelant entries out of lists.xml.org, but my recollection is that,=20 > bray, even at his most pedantic, allowed that, every application will=20 > likely construct some data object to collect the "names which are not=20 > in a any namespace". and, despite the necessity, that the application=20 > treat this object the same way as it treats data objects which are=20 > identified by iri - that is, as a set of names identified by a datum=20 > which is denoted by prefixes, and despite the recommendation's=20 > definition of a namespace, and despite the rfc2396 definition of a uri=20= > reference, the latter objects are namespaces, while collections of=20 > "names which are not in any namespace" are not. I wouldn't worry about this overmuch. The recommendation's definition of an "XML Namespace" is devoid of meaning. --Joe English jenglish@f...
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