Re: QNames

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ "James Clark" <jjc@jclark.com> was heard to say:
| The assumption underlying the datatypeNamespace idea is that mixing datatype
| namespaces will be relatively unusual.  I'm guessing that most of the time
| people will use XML Schema Part 2 by itself, or in the long term some other
| simpler datatype system by itself.
| 
| I would agree that if people have to mix datatype namespaces often, QNames
| work better.

I understand (and accept the assumption). I also assume that if someone
is mixing two datatypeNamespaces, it's probably unlikely that the two
namespaces overlap.

On balance, I guess I'm convinced. Allowing users with no interest in 
namespaces to completely avoid QNames is a nice feature.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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