xml namespaces

[Ramin Raybod]

Hi, I'm a newcomer to XML. The current syntax for a namespace is a two level structure: a prefix as a URI to indicate a namespace and a local name. This syntax implies there would be no duplicate names in a namespace. Wouldn't it be more flexible if we could have a nesting in namespaces? Something like inheritance in objects world? So we could have duplicate names in each subset unified by their parents and too many other benefits. Sorry if I'm going too far:) Ramin