Why are XML namespaces HTTP addresses?
Even though namespace URIs are not real resources available over HTTP, what is the purpose of XML namespaces? And how are XML parsers related to it? Where their recognition (namespaces) exist? The purpose of XML namespaces is explained clearly in Section 1, Motivation and Summary of the W3C Recommendation: Namespaces in XML 1.0 (Third Edition) : We envision applications of Extensible Markup Language (XML) where a single XML document may contain elements and attributes (here referred to as a "markup vocabulary") that are defined for and used by multiple software modules. One motivation for this