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Namespaces on Attribute Names

• From: David Megginson <david@m...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 15:06:43 -0400

Murray Altheim writes:

 > This of course required that I add a namespace variable to my class def.
 > for Element. I have not yet added any support for namespaces on attributes,
 > as I can't understand the rationale.

Can't understand, or don't agree with?  I have to admit that I have
been uncomfortable with the idea myself.

In any case, I'll offer myself as a victim to your pseudo-Socratic
feigned ignorance, and suggest that namespaces on attributes are meant
to represent a kind of implicit multiple inheritance, where the
derived class is never explicitly named.  Compare the following (the
CRTC is the Canadian government's big-brother media supervisor -- if
anyone wants to get me started on the CRTC, send private
correspondence):

XML Excerpt
-----------

  <doc id="xxx" LC:refNo="BS123.456 1998" CRTC:rating="family">
   [...]
  </doc>


Conceptual Equivalent in C++
----------------------------

  class LC
  {
  public:
    String &getRefNo ();
  };

  class CRTC
  {
  public:
    String &getRating ();
  };

  class Doc 
  {
  public:
    String &getId ();
  [...]
  };

  // This class is implicit.
  class MyDoc : public Doc, public LC, public CRTC
  {
  [...]
  }


All the best,


David

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