RE: reference to element, elementFormDefault unqualified

> I often use this as an example of the downsides of
> freezing one part of your stack (XML and Namespaces)  before you fully
> architect closely related ones (Schema and maybe Query

I tend to the view that most of the horrors of namespaces are because they
are at the wrong level of the stack in the first place; as is the Infoset.
Describing any of this as "architected" seems an abuse of the term: it was
put together by jobbing builders.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/