> If I may be so nosy, where did this idea come from? It doesn't seem to
> have come in as a NOTE, and so far as I know it lacks the usual SGML
> ancestry. Glimmerings of it are visible in the XML 1.0 spec (xml:lang and
> xml:space), but otherwise it seems to have arrived fully born.
Search http://www13.w3.org/XML/9712-reports.html for "namespace".
Basically, the old PI-based system seems to have arrived full-blown
in the XML WG meeting of 1 October 1997. xml:space existed before
this under the name -XML-SPACE.
-- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)