We should consider going away from our practice of using QNames for IDs in MAEC, as it forces consumers and processors to map prefixes->namespaces for attribute values. Accordingly, there is a W3C recommendation that suggests using URIs instead of QNames for IDs:
We should consider going away from our practice of using QNames for IDs in MAEC, as it forces consumers and processors to map prefixes->namespaces for attribute values. Accordingly, there is a W3C recommendation that suggests using URIs instead of QNames for IDs:
http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/qnameids