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Modular namespaces are a familiar concept in many realms. Area codes disambiguate phone numbers; domain names qualify URLs; package names scope identifiers in programs. Partitioning XML ...

There is an ongoing controversy in the XML world about the use of a feature called namespaces. By default, every element in an XML document is assigned to the “empty” namespace, but the ...