RE: [xml-dev] thinking about "namespace pedantry"

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

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 > in summary, the "namespaces in xml" recommendation's specifications with regard to "names  

> which are not in any namespace" are unnecessarily and unreasonably paradoxical. 

 

Absolutely. James Clark got round this quite neatly in XPath 1.0, I think, by referring to the "thing that is not a namespace" as "the null namespace". We need a name for it, and we can use that phrase without having to agree on whether the thing is or is not a namespace.

 

Michael Kay