Oleg Tkachenko wrote:

>> However it wouldn't be bad if some future version of XML (and XPath)
>> allowed to use Clarks notation everywhere where QName is allowed. But
>> this will hardly happen I think.
>
>
> I wonder why?

Probably because price of dealing with QNames without Clark's notation
is lower then price of extending all various existing XML
implementations to support XML "2.0" that will allow such notation.

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