[Eric van der Vlist]
>
> Thomas B. Passin said:
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> > The namespace tells immediately which schema is in play.
>
> No, that's not always as simple.
>
> There isn't always a schema and even when there is a schema (or more than
> one schema) there is nothing in a XML document (except maybe its public ID
> which unfortunately mandates a DTD) which describes the combination used
> to mix the namespaces.
Eric, I do not really disagree with you, but I was responding to David M's
question about real applications, and I limited my remarks to the one thing
I have worked on where I am really glad that namespaces are available (not
counting xslt).
Cheers,
Tom P
