XML namespaces are a discussion topic ?!?!
Jon Udell writes in his most recent column that some think that there is a "controversy" about the use of XML namespaces. This seems to stem from the sad fact that RSS never got a proper namespace assigned to it and is one of the hottest schemas specs in the XML space right now. Sorry, there may people in disbelief, but the XML Namespaces spec is normative and referenced in the current XML 1.0...