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Specification controversies

How should a relative URI be interpreted? This innocent question spawned a controversy that resulted in leaving the matter undefined (by deprecating such namespaces).

Other controversies:

Unfortunately, according to the spec, the choice of prefix may matter, and an unqualified attribute generally does not just inherit the namespace from its element.

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