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Re: Is "xmlns:xml" legal or not?

• From: Richard Tobin <richard@c...>
• To: Tony.Coates@r...
• Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 16:02:02 +0100 (BST)

>Recently, I've run into a compatibility problem with some XML tools over
>whether it is valid to have an "xmlns:xml" declaration in a document. 

This is already on the "potential erratum" list for the Namespaces
spec, and will be clarified one way or the other.

I don't know how it will turn out, but I strongly recommmend that you
avoid declaring the xml prefix, and that tools at least warn about it,
since not declaring it will certainly continue to be legal!

-- Richard

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