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On Jan 25, 2005, at 4:17 PM, Andrew E Switala wrote: > Suppose you have a document with references to MODS records in several > external files, each of which refers to one or more MADS records in yet > other external files. You want to flatten the document: embed all the > MODS and MADS records so that there are no external dependencies. This > instance document might never even reside on storage; it may be an > intermediate stage, say, on the way to formatted output. > > Also, MODS instances already use up to three namespaces (not counting > http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance for the schemaLocation > attribute): http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 (MODS elements), > http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink (the href attribute), and > http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace (the lang attribute). Plus the > non-namespace, where unqualified attributes go. How will another > namespace add much complexity? I think your first point is a reasonable point of discussion, though I'd still prefer separate namespaces in this case. Your second point isn't very convincing. *Any* unnecessary additional namespace it too many. As I said in the other message, we need to keep these questions separate. Bruce