At 2:03 PM -0500 3/8/03, Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote:
>You can do it fine without namespaces too though right? Surely an attribute,
>or an XPath in the dispatcher would do just as well?
They're a dozen different ways to do this. For instance, I could have
a table of which element names belong to which vocabularies, and
perhaps make the table context dependent. Namespaces just make it a
lot easier.
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