Why namespaces?

[James Clark]

Mark Birbeck wrote:

> A template of 'P' would match all elements that have a local
> name 'P', regardless of the namespace they came from,

Not true.  It matches a P whose expanded-name has a local name of P and
a null namespace URI.

James


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