WFS: why not use the default namespace?

[Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)]

Hi list,

why doesn't Mapserver WFS use the default namespace, i.e.:

xmlns="http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/mapserver"

so that it does not have to put ms: in front of all the elements?

I am asking this since we have a problem converting Mapserver GML into 
ESRI Shapefile using ogr2ogr. The attribute names will come out as 
ms_XXXX which confuses users who are also familiar with the native data.

Hope to hear some thoughts on this.

Best regards,
Bart

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Bart van den Eijnden
OSGIS, Open Source GIS
http://www.osgis.nl