[gedit-list] taglist xml syntax

["nick humphrey" <nick c humphrey gmail com>]

maybe its just me, but the xml syntax seems a little silly:
   <gedit:Tag name="a">
     <gedit:Begin>&lt;a&gt;</gedit:Begin>
     <gedit:End>&lt;/a&gt;</gedit:End>
   </gedit:Tag>

why have both a begin and and end tag when you could just put
everything into one tag?
   <gedit:Tag name="a">
     <gedit:Begin>&lt;a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</gedit:Begin>
   </gedit:Tag>

this works fine....Begin could for example be replaced with Code...

and why does the xmlns link to something that doesn't exist?
<gedit:TagList xmlns:gedit="http://gedit.sourceforge.net/some-location";>