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Alessandro Triglia wrote: > When people complain about namespaces, do they mean that namespaces should > not exist at all? Do they think they are useless? Or do they think they > should be replaced by something else? Or do they have in mind some simple > changes to the syntax, such as using URI/localname pairs everywhere? When I complain about namespaces, it's just the opposite: I *don't* want to have to use URI/localname pairs everywhere. I'd rather treat element type names and attribute names as simple, atomic strings. This is possible with a sane API, but most XML APIs aren't sane. And of course when you get into serialization/deserialization or QNames-in-content, it gets even worse: then you have to worry about namespace prefixes and in-scope namespaces too. --Joe English jenglish@f...
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