Re: [xml-dev] Namespaces

[Joe English <jenglish@flightlab.com>]

Peter Finch wrote:
> 
> Seeing ":" can appear multiple times in a name in XML 1.1 and 1.0
> e.g. "<ns1:a:b:c>" (giving the tag "a:b:c" a namespace of "ns1")
> does anyone see any advantages in an ability for a tag to belong
> to multiple namespaces at once? e.g. "<ns1:ns2:head>"...
> Namespaces 1.2 perhaps????

Some of us are not yet convinced that there is any real advantage
to associating *one* namespace with an element type name,
let alone multiple namespaces :-)


--Joe English

  jenglish@flightlab.com