stepping backward

At 05:23 PM 6/2/00 +0100, David Carlisle wrote:
>> What depends on the definition?  Actual operations, value added?
>
>I don't understand this question.  _everything_ depends on the
>definition of the namespace name. If you don't know the namespace name
>then you can't do anything.

Maybe it's time to revert to prefix-only (XML 1.0 without namespaces)
processing, though that obviously has its own severe limitations.

It is, however, permitted by the XML 1.0 spec, at least in its current
incarnation.

Simon St.Laurent
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Building XML Applications
Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical
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Received on Friday, 2 June 2000 13:30:40 UTC