Article:		XML Namespaces Don't Need URIs
Subject:		Why and how this should be implemented immediately
Date:		2005-04-15 18:27:40
From:		fuzzyBSc
Why? This bug: http://www.mail-archive.com/xalan-dev@xml.apache.org/msg23493.html The bug appears in jdk 1.5.0. The design decision to make qname prefixes reassignable remains a major problem for tool correctness. How? If you are going to drop the current opacity of qname prefixes such as xsl and go to a java package naming scheme you also need a "uses" statement. com.w3.xsl would be cumbersome to type everwhere, so all or part of the namespace must become implicit with either a "using com.w3" or using "com.w3.xsl" statement. We can't do this in a straightforward way with attributes because attributes can't be repeated. <Foo xml:uses="com.w3" xml:uses="com.example"/> will not work. Sub-elements aren't good unless they apply to their parent node (otherwise there wouldn't be a way to assign namespaces to the root node of your document). Is the sub-element applying to parent element the best approach? Benjamin.

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