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Qualifying names

Simple solution: qualify names with URIs (Universal Resource Identifiers)

<{http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1}head>
  \                         / \  /
   -------------------------   --
       qualifying URI       local name

Do not be confused by the use of URIs for namespaces:

(just like Java package names!)

This is the idea - the actual solution is less verbose but slightly more complicated...

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