RE: [xml-dev] thinking about "namespace pedantry"

 > in summary, the "namespaces in xml" recommendation's specifications
with regard to "names  
> which are not in any namespace" are unnecessarily and unreasonably
paradoxical. 
 
Absolutely. James Clark got round this quite neatly in XPath 1.0, I
think, by referring to the "thing that is not a namespace" as "the null
namespace". We need a name for it, and we can use that phrase without
having to agree on whether the thing is or is not a namespace.
 
Michael Kay