>>>>> "MI" == Masayasu Ishikawa <mimasa@w3.org> writes:

    Me> So, this is a general design question for XML document definitions
    Me> rather than a specific question about XHTML.

    MI> Which should be better discussed on xml-dev or elsewhere.  In fact
    MI> during 1999 there were lots of discussions on that topic on xml-dev,
    MI> triggered by the namespace usage in XHTML 1.0.  A good summary of
    MI> that discussion can be found at:

    MI> http://www.xml.com/pub/a/1999/10/names/namespaces.html 

Thanks for this URL and your detailed response. I'll move this
discussion to a more appropriate forum if I have any more questions.

Thanks again,

~ESP

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Evan Prodromou
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