A collected summary of items that ran on the xmlhack newswire on 1 April, 2003.
Sean McGrath on names, addresses, and namespaces"Unique names are so much less useful than powerful addressing. Moreover, the pseudo-cascading effect of XML namespaces creates a brittle middle-ground between content-free and context-dependent naming .... I have a simple rule about namespaces in XML applications. I don't use them. "