• To: "'Paul Prescod'" <paul@p...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: QNames in attribute values
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:27:25 -0000
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• In-reply-to: <3C575C7E.5D63F19C@p...>
• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

> I'll take a whack at that troll. The SGML-heads tried to make
> namespaces
> global and (IIRC, use a syntax other than attributes). But here's Tim
> Berners-Lee's opinion:
>
> http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Extensible.html#Local
>
It was a nice aim, but it failed miserably, because you can't cut a fragment
out of an XML document and paste it elsewhere without knowing all the
namespace declarations that are in scope for that fragment.

I've just had to throw out a modification made to Saxon by a
well-intentioned user who failed to realise this.

Mike Kay

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