RE: [xml-dev] Lesson Learned: Use namespaces for both markup and data

[Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>]

> 
> QNames in content are a *terrible* idea.
> 

Yes - but they are an almost inevitable consequence of namespace prefixes,
which are themselves an inevitable consequence of using unmanageable strings
as namespace names.

Regards,

Michael Kay
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