As far as I know, the only difference is when you try and produce
human-readable XML documents. In this case, there are often ad-hoc
conventions regarding which prefix maps to what namespace (e.g. for the
same namespace, xhtml: is more readable than, say, ns1:) -- which might
be useful for people writing, say, editors.

There might also be a difference when browsers are attempting to recover
broken xml, but that's probably not an issue here.

Cheers,
 David


On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 21:44 +0100, Bünzli Daniel wrote:
> However maybe I'm missing something so I'd like to ask the list if  
> someone think there is any use for clients to get qualified names ? If  
> I you do please tell me.

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