The use of namespaces, is, I hope, less complicating than the use of RDF,
though it too depends on a W3C draft, not a recommendation. Namespace issues
and RDF issues may overlap to a certain extent.
The namespaces draft is at
http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-xml-names-19980518.html
Simon St.Laurent
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