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Dan Farino, who wrote the CLR based, Regex extended stored procedure on which I put a warning sign yesterday, wrote me an email back (I notified him that I wrote that blog entry) and told me that he just uploaded an unmanaged version. Haven't downloaded it, yet, but it seems to be functionally equivalent. If it's stable and quick, I can think of 2 bazillon uses for this -- including, of course, Regex based XML parsing inside SQL Server (while we wait for Yukon)....

Tim Bray, author of the Namespace spec, enlightens us here that I am technically wrong by using the term "empty namespace". Yes. Absolutely. But the "not member of any namespace" vs. "member of the empty namespace" distinction becomes meaningless once you start coding against an XML infrastructure, because in the programming models, there is pretty much always a namespace qualifier. In the .NET Framework, for instance, the NamespaceURI is an empty string in such cases (... and it should...