Re: [xml-dev] WD for Namespaces 1.1

4/4/2002 7:07:07 PM, Ronald Bourret <> wrote:

> namespaces are the only part of the infoset that
>are not defined in the XML 1.0 spec. Put another way, namespaces are
>part of XML 1.0 in a de facto sense, even if they lack de jure status.

That's a pretty compelling argument, IMHO.  As I implied in an earlier
reply to Len, conceptual integrity has a "value" all its own, even though
that is hard to quantify in a cost/benefit analysis.