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> 2. Enforce sanity, as defined at:
>
> http://www.flightlab.com/~joe/sgml/sanity.txt
>
> by saying that once a (markup-level) namespace is declared, it
> cannot be re-declared in the same document unless it has the same
> prefix.
>
...
> 4. (A general thing, but has a particular impact with namespaces)
> Have an option to retain user-specified but syntax-level
> artifacts such as namespace prefixes, so that identity
> transformations (for example) are able to create
> identical-looking XML. For some reason, users grow attached to
> the prefixes that they use and get upset when they're substituted
> for 'ns0', despite the fact that the expanded names are just the
> same.
It seems that (4) may conflict with (2) in where XML documents are merged.
Will you use some form of prefix mangling in those cases?
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