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Sat Sep 4 20:53:25 BST 1999

From: Kay Michael <Michael.Kay at icl.com>

>I seem to recall, at the time Namespaces was being debated, a lone voice
>saying that of course namespaces should be hierarchic rather than
>single-level. Shame that none listened.

Exactly.  The whole point of URI/URL schemas (AFAIU) is to map hierarchical
spaces.

But XML-NS simply uses the cumbersome notation (it ain't, strictly speaking,
pretty) when the __information__ that the notational system is designed to
convey is disregarded?

(Further motivation:  A hierarchical naming context will greatly facilitate
'modularization'.)

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Joubin
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