2009/9/23 Remko Tronçon <remko at el-tramo.be>: >> If we didn't do this, we'd need some additional signalling to distinguish, >> or else we'd have to use distinct TCP ports for all three, which seems >> suboptimal, especially when we're already using this quite happily. > > The 'correct' way is probably to use doctypes on the XML stream, but > let's not go there. I'm in favor of keeping default namespaces on the > toplevel element of the stream, as a way to distinguish the type of > stream. > > I also agree that the namespace prefix shouldn't be mandatory. > Simple +1 from me, since every implementation seems to be handling these issues differently right now (either disallowing, or trying to work around) it would be good to have official clarification. Matthew
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