> > The example is valid well-formed XML. It is permitted to use the ":" > character in element names. Whether one should in a non namespace > context is a different matter.
It is? I was always under the impression one has to declare a namespace. But this might be shaped from the usage of XSLT and W3C schema that require these. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list