Re: redefine and target namespace

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Michael Kay writes:

> Yes. I've never heard an adequate explanation of why this extraordinary
> decision was made, but in practice everyone changes the default by using
> elementFormDefault="qualified".

At the time the spec. was written, the community was pretty evenly
divided between people who thought the attribute model (i.e. not in a
namespace as such) was right for leaf node elements as well, and those
who thought that all elements should be qualified.

Without going into tedious and confidential details about
personalities and working group discussions, suffice it to say that
the design we have was the only one that included both possibilities
which the WG could reach consensus on.

ht
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