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• Subject: Re: Global/Local attributes
• From: Richard Tobin <richard@c...>
• Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 13:25:13 +0100 (BST)
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• In-reply-to: <4.2.0.58.20020801230443.01ecd008@p...>
• Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh

>>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.

>Fair enough.  That cuts to the core more neatly than any of the other 
>proposals I've heard or made.

I don't see what the default namespace has to do with the attribute
issue.  Unprefixed attributes are *not* in the default namespace.

The "obviously stupid" example

  <x:foo x:att="one" att="two"/>

does not use the default namespace in any way, and would be equally
legal and stupid if the default namespace didn't exist.

-- Richard

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