On 4/16/2016 10:00 AM, Michael Kay wrote:
> The Namespaces in XML spec came from the XML Core working group. As
> with the XML spec itself, the group chose (in my view unwisely) to
> define a syntax with no underlying data model. This left other groups
> to argue later about whether, for example, two documents that
> differed only in the choice of namespace prefixes should be
> considered equivalent.
I seem to remember that the namespace recommendation was very rushed,
but I don't remember why that was thought to be necessary.
Tom Passin
