(2004-09-07) Dehora Xmpp Xml Python Namespace

Bill De Hora is working on client and server stack for XMPP in Python, and is running into XML NameSpace issues. I'm surprised to see an XML application envelope insisting on a default namespace on the document element. I don't know anything at all about the design decisions, but having seen some namespaced weirdness in my time, my first reaction is that this is not something you want to be designing into Internet technologies... It should be clear that default namespaces trangress the layers. In turn this means they violate one of the few engineering principles we have in computing that could be considered a universal... In modern protocol construction, it conspires to produce an architectural prank of the first order.