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Let me take this opportunity to make my standard namespace rant: The change
suggested in the proposed v 1.1 only smooths over the tiniest tip of the namespaces
iceberg. The part that takes its toll is not the common syntax, but the different
namespace data models -- DOM, XPath/XSLT 1, XPath/XSLT 2, Canonical XML, and
probably more. Are prefixes significant, i.e., should the InfoSet retain any
memory of the prefix used to map to a namespace, or is this just syntax sugar? Are
namespace declarations attributes? Is namespace information associated with each
node, or does the scope of the namespace implicitly define some region in the
document? And what is supposed to happen when nodes (namespace declarations or data
nodes) move around?
There's no way to sort this out without breaking lots of code and making people
unhappy, but unless XML disentangles itself from this mess, its forward progress
will be significantly hindered.
Thanks, I got that off my chest and won't feel compelled to whine about it for a
few more months :~)
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