RE: reference to element, elementFormDefault unqualified

> Thanks for pointing this out. I'm merely setting
> elementFormDefault="unqualified" to hide namespaces from my 
> instance documents
> so that it's not visible which component an element belongs 
> to (making 
> instance
> documents a lot more readable).
> 
> So do you suggest that's not really a good practice?

It's the wrong mechanism for the job (and doesn't achieve the aim). You can
achieve what you want with a default namespace in the instance document.

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