RE: [xml-dev] Access XML

[Jeff Lowery <Jeff.Lowery@creo.com>]

> A namespace name is supposed to be globally unique (at least 
> if you use it
> in public documents). If you use a URI scheme without IETF 
> registration,
> there's no guarantee whatsoever that the namespace name 
> indeed *is* globally
> unique.
> 
> Julian

The same can be said of URLs, which are unregistered, and collisions could
foreseeably happen in domains that are very large. Should every domain
holder establish a local registry?   

Not to sound like a broken record, or anything...