> On 22 Apr 2016, at 21:58, Eliot Kimber ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> It seemed like a good idea at the time ....
>

Not to me it didn't.

Sadly, I can't track down the post where I recall saying that it didn't matter
that the design of namespaces was horrible, because it was so bad that no-one
would ever use them.

Michael Kay
Saxonica