Original Message From: "Liam Quin"

Donkeys can't type very fast... I can see there there might be pushback
for this proposal on the grounds that it's considerably more verbose
than most other current proposals, with the exception of the {...}
syntax...

See my proposal from yesterday that allowed partial namespaces (http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200908/msg00033.html ).

also, it can't easily be made compatible with
things like ch.cern.html (later org.ietf.html, and then org.w3.html,
of course, and also ch.iso.html...)

If you make the namespace more obviously separable from the local name, (for example, by using a : rather than another .), then the XML parser can be informed as a local implementation that namespace org.ietf.html is an alias of namespace org.w3.html (or better still, namespace http://html.ietf.org is an alias of namespace http://html.w3.org).  So when the parser encounters <body:html.ietf.org> it can return the equivalent of <body:html.w3.org>.

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