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 document’s ...

XML has two main advantages: first, it offers a standard way of structuring data, and, second, we can specify the vocabulary the data uses. We can define the vocabulary (what elements and attributes ...

Some have chosen to know, use and love the @namespace syntax, while others have ignored it completely. The advantage of using a namespace, of course, is that it works in any non-XML-based ML without ...