Examine the document element. I've removed extra stuffing to make it
more obvious.

<rss xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://www.thearchitect.co.uk/schemas/rss
-2_0.xsd" version="2.0">

The noNamespaceSchemaLocation attribute is used to specify an XML
Schema location for an XML vocabulatory like RSS that is not in a
namespace. If your XML parser validated, then it could use this
attribute to find the schema to validate the XML against.

Hope this clarifies,

Randy Charles Morin
http://www.kbcafe.com/rss

--- In rss-public@yahoogroups.com, "Rogers Cadenhead" <cadenhead@...>
wrote:
>
> My reply appears to have been eaten. I'm not figuring out something
about
> this: What schema stuff is adversely affected by a prohibition against
> namespace attributes in core elements?
>