RE: Namespaces, schemas, Simon's filters.

[Jeff Lowery <jlowery@scenicsoft.com>]

It seems the restrictions on local element names are stricter than those for
global elements in a namespace, yet no one seems to have a problem with
that. 

Would it make sense instead to represent namespaces as elements? What
problems would that present, other than breaking the current implementations
of all the specs? :-}