Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:

> Apologies for the long delay here.  I'm with you regarding namespaces
> and sxml->xml.  In the past I made sure to always get the namespaces
> attached to the root element via the @ xmlns attributes, and then have
> namespaced uses just be local names, not qnames, and that way sxml->xml
> works fine.  But, perhaps that doesn't cover all cases in a nice way.
> Do you still have thoughts on this patch?  Is the right thing for you?
> In any case we need better documentation in the manual about how to deal
> with namespaces and SXML, in practice, with examples.

Here is another proposal, mirroring what is done in “xml->sxml”: