Article:		XML Namespaces Don't Need URIs
Subject:		URI is not a URL
Date:		2005-04-16 03:36:18
From:		bryan rasmussen
Response to: URI is not a URL
the document element of xsl-fo is root. It may be unlikely that two pagination formats will have a document element root, but certainly possible. It is highly likely that a generic xml handling solution will have to deal with many different formats which have root as the document element.

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• URI is not a URL
  2005-04-16 03:58:26 mikeday [Reply]
  
  XSL-FO is not a compelling argument for namespaces, given that XSL-FO documents are generally fed directly into programs expecting XSL-FO, with no need for disambiguation.

  
  One could imagine two different markup languages both having a root element of <fo:root>, and a formatter that supported both markup languages, and yet such a thing does not exist.

  
  Namespaces on the other hand do exist, apparently to solve non-existent problems, while causing real problems of their own.