RE: [xml-dev] Motivations for namespaces (sorry)

["Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@ntlworld.com>]

> It's funny that no one seem to be 
> able to present a *good* working example of how namespaces 
> solves name conflicts. 

You don't actually need an example: the theoretical possibility of a
conflict is good enough justification.

But if you want an example, look at the vocabularies used by XSLT and
XML Schema. A quick scan finds that both use the local names element,
attribute, include, import, key, sequence.

Michael Kay