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What should we do?
Now:
Local projects can use namespaces when necessary
Long-term:
Assigning your own namespace could still be a good idea
But should every JATS profile have its own namespace?
Probably not (namespace proliferation creates its own headaches)
Maybe no for clean subsets, yes for supersets
(Or extend into your own namespace)
Plus, a namespace for “vanilla” JATS?
Will DTDs then obsolesce? Not necessarily
DTD validation is still possible when documents are “namespace-clean”
Mulberry Technologies, Inc. • Taming the Namespace Beast • JATS-Con 2011