Re: [xml-dev] How to get realistic expectations for Namespaces (was Best Practice = Vanilla XML? )

Jeff Rafter scripsit:

> My only question is,
> now that the DTD has been defined the need for namespaces is gone. To put it
> another way-- is there anything that Reuters Health consumers are doing with
> the data that actually requires namespaces. 

I don't know what they are doing with the data.  For all I know, they are
running it through "grep", which is just what I do when classifying stories
against profiles (call me the Desperate Fgrep Hacker).

Any document that uses namespaces in a sane way does not *need* the prefix-URI
mapping, for there is a one-to-one relationship between prefixes and namespace
names in such a document.

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internal links in forms which are hideously        
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