Re: [xml-dev] [good] Question about NS 1.1

[Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>]

>"Undeclaring" an unused namespace prefix should have
>no effect whatsoever on the interpretation of the document;

It does have the minor advantage of keeping broken documents broken:
if you include a document with an unbound prefix in content in a
document that happens to declare that prefix, it won't get magically
and perhaps incorrectly "fixed".

-- Richard