namespaces

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namespaces are a mechanism to allow multiple properties of the same name to exist in the same object while avoiding conflicts between them.

See Also

• 2018-07-22 criticism by Aaron Parecki: Seriously why is accessing XML namespaced tags so difficult?
• https://twitter.com/hsivonen/status/866247749477564416
  • "Namespaces were added to XML for RDF. 1/5" @hsivonen May 21, 2017
  • as evidenced by: TimBL
• Namespace confusion (whatwg.org)
• XML and namespaces are hard: https://hsivonen.fi/producing-xml/ and https://hsivonen.fi/xhtml2-html5-q-and-a/
• namespaces considered harmful (microformats.org)