On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 20:20 +0000, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> Is there ever a time when it is okay to create an XML application that
> checks for a specific prefix,
In an XML environment - no.
In other environments - sometimes. For example, HTML 5 (not based on
XML) can say things about specific prefixes if it likes.
Liam
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