ECMAScript for XML - Direct XML Syntax in ECMAScript
I&#x27;ve been using XML here and there for about 20 years now. It does have its uses. But I still don&#x27;t have any idea what all that xmlns stuff is about, especially all the variations of it that involve colons. Like I know its something to do with namespaces or whatever. But to this day I open an XML file and in the first few lines there&#x27;s a few xmlns pointing to some random complicated old urls and it just has this air of &#x27;ignorable old overspecified thing because someone got too excited twenty years ago&#x27;<p>(except sometimes its not ignorable and then things get messy)<p>edit: yes I know what namespaces are for, and some of the simple uses are simple, but to try and understand xml namespaces and schemas in full is really complicated. 95% of the time this stuff just seems like fussy cruft.