Re: Thoughts, questions, and issues.

[Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>]

Ken MacLeod <ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us> wrote:

> Many XML Namespace processing tools discard the prefix, because the
> Namespace URI is really the only significant part of the namespace.
> If someone hardcodes prefixes, they're gonna get burnt.  Most good XML
> Namespace tools make it easy to use (URI, LocalName) pairs so that
> even they don't have to worry about prefixes.  The namespace prefixes
> in the RSS 1.0 and Modules docs should be taken as examples only.

As I said, it's not the right thing to do, but if you're totally desperate,
it's a possibility.

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