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> > The one truly horrible thing about namespaces is the horrible > convention adopted of making them way too complicated for the > eyeball to parse easily with no obvious benefit at all. (And > not even hidden benefits, I think.) I agree that's one of the problems, and fixing it would actually require no change to the specs, just a change in working practices. (I think this philosophy of "every identifier must be a URI", coupled with "URIs should begin with 'http://', is one of the worst things to come out of W3C). But there are plenty of other problems, notably the impact of namespace declarations on the data model (in-scope prefix bindings need to be retained in the data model just in case anyone happens to be using prefixes in element or attribute content.) Regards, Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ http://twitter.com/michaelhkay
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