>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Michael> I have thought for a long time that it would be a good
    Michael> idea to allow such a notation (a) in source XML, (b) in
    Michael> XPath expressions, and (c) in the lexical space of the
    Michael> xs:QName data type; but I haven't had much success in
    Michael> persuading anyone.

I actually prefer the notation that the WG recently introduced for
error messages - the namespace-uri followed by # followed by the local
name - one less character to type.
-- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire