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> This is the second time in this thread I've seen it written that > Namespaces are flawed. It used to be a permathread on this list, but everyone's given up moaning except when they discover some new implication. The biggest problem is that the spec tries to make prefixes non-significant and fails. Another problem is that the spec is vague as to what constitutes a valid namespace URI (and whether it is ever meaningful to dereference a namespace URI, resolve it against another URI, etc) The root cause of the problem is that the layering is wrong: naming is fundamental to XML, and you can't add something fundamental as an optional layer on top of the core. At any rate, you shouldn't. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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