Namespace Comments

[James Clark]

Don Park wrote:
> 
> I have read the latest namespace spec.  While I am sure that a lot
> considerations and discussions have gone into the spec, I am compelled to
> ask why something like the following was not chosen?

[element based solution deleted]

Because it was felt undesirable that namespace processing should change
the structure of the element tree.

> If attribute-based namespace declaration is the only way to go, why not use
> a simple word like 'namespace' instead of 'xmlns' so that its purpose is
> clear to the reader?

Only names beginning with "xml" (any case) are reserved by the XML spec.

> If 'namespace' is too common, people can qualify it with 'xml' like this
> 'xml:namespace'?

Using 'xml:namespace' would mean that a namespace 'foo' was declared
using

  xml:namespace:foo="..."

which looks very strange to me.

James


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