> 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.
You'll probably be able to trace the history on Robin Cover's XML Page
(now at OASIS) -- I know that Andrew Layman had written something up,
and that there was a whole slew of namespace-like proposals floating
around last Summer.
All the best,
David
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