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RE: Global/Local attributes

• To: "Aaron Skonnard" <aarons@d...>,"Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Global/Local attributes
• From: "Don Box" <dbox@m...>
• Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 04:17:43 -0700
• Thread-index: AcI51K7sY310w2IpTjiwZy9H1DAPJAAQRKpw
• Thread-topic: Global/Local attributes

+1

It's unfortunate, however, that most uses of QNames beyond
element/attribute GIs assumes the element convention (no prefix gets
default inscope namespace) rather than the attribute convention (no
prefix gets no namespace). This appears in XPath, XSLT, XML Schema, and
XML Query.

My guess is one or more of those applications motivated the
xmlns:prefix="" feature.

DB


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Skonnard [mailto:aarons@d...]
> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 8:28 PM
> To: 'Simon St.Laurent'; xml-dev@l...
> Subject: RE:  Global/Local attributes
> 
> > At 06:12 PM 8/1/2002 -0700, Dare Obasanjo wrote:
> > >What is broken is the existence of a default namespace. Further
> > >mangling Namespaces in XML to accomodate this mistake is unwise
> > >and borders on foolishness.
> >
> > Simon replies:
> > Fair enough.  That cuts to the core more neatly than any of the
> > other proposals I've heard or made.
> 
> Let me add my strong support. I've long believed that default
namespaces
> are inherently *evil* in that they've done more to confuse the masses
> than any other aspect of XML. This fundamental flaw seems to pollute
> every new XML specification in some obscure way. If they didn't exist,
> as Dare points out, we probably wouldn't be having this discussion (or
> many others that pop up on this list). I wish they would just go away.
> 
> -aaron
> http://staff.develop.com/aarons
> 
> 
> 
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