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

["Jonathan Borden" <jonathan@openhealth.org>]

Message Michael Kay wrote:
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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.
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"Collection of unqualified names" ?

Jonathan