RE: CURIEs, xmlns and bandwidth

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[Coming late to this particular party, please cut me some slack]

Misha Wolf writes:

> What are the advantages of using xmlns declarations for CURIEs?  
> It is difficut to argue that this approach results in support by 
> existing tools, as one then has to face the possibility that some 
> of these tools will get indigestion when faced with CURIEs which 
> are not legal QNames.

> As xmlns and QNames are defined by the Namespaces in XML spec, and 
> as we're not adopting QNames, why should we use xmlns to declare 
> constructs which are not QNames?

Am I right in understanding from your examples that the (main?/only?)
reason for not adopting QNames is that you have a requirement to
support as-it-were-local-names which don't match the NCName
production, e.g. digit strings?

Are there any _other_ differences between
whatever-it-is-you're-calling-these-not-QNames and QNames?  In
particular, could you confirm that they _do_ share with QNames that
identity is checked on the expanded form, i.e. the pair of namespace
URI and 'local-name', not on the prefix:local-name form?

Thanks,

ht
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