Re: [xml-dev] Lesson Learned: Use namespaces for both markup anddata

> I am 95% certain that the pain caused by allowing
> prefix declarations only on the root element would be far less than
> the pain caused by allowing redeclarations of prefixes.

If there weren't already a huge installed base, perhaps. But it would 
certainly put pretty tight restrictions on "streaming" where something 
like XSLT doesn't buffer the whole result tree in memory first.

        /r$

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