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Re: namespace prefixes within attribute values

• From: ht@c... (Henry S. Thompson)
• To: David Megginson <david@m...>
• Date: 10 Mar 2000 09:55:12 +0000

David Megginson <david@m...> writes:

> While it's annoying for typists, it's
> generally a lot more robust to have
> 
>   <doc:doc xmlns:doc="http://www.acme.com/doc/">
>    <doc:thing1 foo="http://www.acme.com/doc/x" bar="doc:y"/>
>   </doc:doc>
> 
> At least now I can tell what's meant without a schema.

Although note the same problem resurfaces with relative URIs and XBase 
-- without a declaration (e.g. in a schema) you don't know which
attribute values _are_ relative URIs and which just happen to look
like them.

ht
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