Julian Reschke wrote: Below are some comments that I just added to the Pace:

"- Requiring the namespace declaration on a particular element means (a) profiling XMLNS,

I don't have a problem with this. Taking XMLNS warts and all cause more problems that it solves.



(b) defeating potential space optimizations by having the namespace declaration only once, and

Do you have a sense of how serious not allowing these potential optimizations is?



(c) breaks XML toolkits that do not provide full control over where namespace declarations appear.

They sound like dysfunctional toolkits. Can you name some (ie it might be persuasive if it came to light that a scad of PHP users were left high and dry).


- if this pace gets accepted, I would ask for the same DIV container element for HTML content for reasons of symmetry."

+1 to that symmetry.

cheers
Bill



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