For what it's worth, the XML process has been *extremely* open to
comments and considered, exhaustively and at great length, the issue
of whether what we're trying to do with namespaces could be done
better with architectural forms or some variation thereon. I and
David Megginson and others have expanded at near-infinite length
in this forum and others on these issues and the bases for the
process' conclusions.
I fully acknowledge that you disagree with the conclusion that the
committee came to, but it is incorrect and damaging to allege that
the process ignored the input. -Tim