From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@[...].com> 
> I don't remember writing anything about default namespaces. What comment of
mine are you referencing?

My apologies. I misremembered. It wasn't you, it was Rick Jellife who wrote:

>  On the issue of namespaces, I think it is a mistake not to require
>  explicit prefixes in the XPaths. I also think it is a mistake to use
>  the namespace context for the queries: better to make a Chinese wall
>  separating namespaces used by element and attribute names, and
>  namespaces used by content: this is what Schematron does and I think
>  it has worked really well. No prefix should mean no namespace. It
>  isn't a favour to users for schema languages to provide too much
>  flexibility in this area (compare with elementFormDefault of WXS ),
>  because the user cannot tell immediately whether an unprefixed name
>  is in any namespace--one more thing to worry about when they need to
>  have one fewer thing. (Forcing no-prefix=no-namespace and using
>  separate declarations for namespaces does not reduce expresive
>  power.)

Bob Foster


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