Jonathan Borden wrote:
>  
> ...
>  
>  Yeah. What I understand is that the ability to locally bind namespaces is
>  critical to the ability to stream process XML document composition, an
>  element can define its own namespace prefix binding context. We recently
>  went over this when I declared a namespace best practice of declaring the
>  namespace bindings at the root element. I still maintain this is a best
>  practice but best practices are meant to be broken for such efficiency
>  reasons, and hence the ability to declare local namespace bindings is the
>  correct one (IMHO)

Remember we just had an argument about whether to design for the common
case or the special case? Have you ever done this in an application? I
haven't. Still, every XML application in the world must handle namespace
scoping.

 Paul Prescod

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