Re: [xml-dev] Errors in Kendall Clark's xml.com article on QNames

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Re: [xml-dev] Errors in Kendall Clark's xml.com article on QNames
On Wednesday 13 February 2002 10:30 am, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> QNames in attribute values and element content are a huge mess and a
> big mistake. I've seen them complexify virtually every significant
> system I've worked on that had to process arbitrary XML documents.
> They were a problem for JDOM. They were a problem for XInclude. They
> were a problem when using DOM and SAX. They make XML significantly
> more complex.

I'd make that claim of namespaces in general....

namespaces delenda est!