Original Message From: "Dave Pawson"
>> My proposal: only allow setting the default prefix, as in
>> xmlns='....'
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>> It's compatible with both HTML and XML and should not greatly complicate
>> existing HTML parsers. The drawbacks are that you cannot mix attributes
>> from a different namespace, and that if you embed clumps from xmlns A
>> inside B, a lot, you might get more verbose, with the emphasis on might.
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> What would we lose if attributes were not namespaced?
xsi:type and its friends?
Pete Cordell