> I guess people will also want to know the prefix used.
> Although the prefix is theoretically arbitrary, there are
> likely to be many conventional prefixes in use and
> applications may want to leave the prefix unchanged in an
> output document.
Yes. It's also likely that some people will be interested in using
namespace prefixes within the values of attributes. So the prefix<->URI
mapping needs to be accessible if <ABC:DEF XYZ="ABC:someNameHere"> is to
be intelligible, ie if the "ABC" in "ABC:someNameHere" is to be hooked up
to a URI.
Dan