On Public Comment #191, I have the action to see if this comment has been addressed in ODF 1.2 (cd01). The comment concerns the normative versus exemplary status of the namespace prefixes used throughout the specification.
Based on my analysis, this situation has not been resolved. I recommend resolving this comment in ODF 1.2 by changes for the next Committee Draft.
I accept an action item to propose revised text along with a policy to be applied to mentions of namespaces, qualified names (syntactically: QNames), namespace prefixes, and local names throughout the ODF specification. (I also recall a suggested phraseology in a note from Robert Weir somewhere on a list.)
- Dennis
[1] Dennis E. Hamilton: OpenDocument 1.2v7-02: 1.3 Namespaces. Submitted to office-comments@lists.oasis-open.org on 2008-05-17. Available at