> Doctypes and namespaces are horrendous additions to the language, for instance. I basically completely disagree with this, especially namespaces: the ability

> Doctypes and namespaces are horrendous additions to the language, for instance. I basically completely disagree with this, especially namespaces: the ability to combine elements and attributes from multiple document types without ambiguity is extremely powerful and pays dividends when designing a query language like XPath