I seem to remember from way back a lot of discussion about how you would
be able to use elements from another namespace or schema, if they
weren't qualified somehow. That might have been mostly about inserting
XML fragments from one document into another, I don't remember too
clearly. It would have lead to not wanting to default namespaces to
that of the parent element.
TomP
On 9/29/2016 11:26 AM, Michael Kay wrote:
> omeone, I think, had the bright idea that if a container element is
> in a namespace
>
> <svg:svg xmlns:svg="http://svg.com/">
> <rectangle/>
> <circle/>
> </svg:svg>
>
> then there is no good reason why its children need to be in a
> namespace: like attributes, they are scoped by the container. The
> idea didn't catch on, but the schema spec was written in the belief
> that this was the way forwards.
