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I wrote that this is a problem:
> > 2) There are two kinds of names: names belonging to no
> > namespace and names belonging to a namespace.
Dare Obasanjo wrote:
> If there are no default namespaces then there is no problem #2. If an
> element/attribute isn't prefixed then there is no ambiguity; It has no
> namespace name.
There is no ambiguity as to what an unprefixed name means,
but we still have two kinds of names.
> What have I missed?
If namespaces are collections of names, then a no-namespace
name belongs is an orphan -- it belongs to no collection.
Alternatively, to use WXS terminology, it is a chameleon --
it can belong to any collection. Do you not recognize that
this is a fundamentally different kind of name than one with
a namespace, whether defaulted or not?
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Kian-Tat Lim, ktl@ktlim.com, UTF-7: +Z5de+pBU-
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