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Re: Global/Local attributes

• To: "David Carlisle" <davidc@n...>
• Subject: Re: Global/Local attributes
• From: "Seairth Jacobs" <seairth@s...>
• Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 10:09:15 -0400
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Carlisle" <davidc@n...>
>
> > I agree.  It is a radical change.  However, the reasoning behind it was
that
> > you currently have no way of using attributes defined in the default
> > namespace, which seems counter-intuitive to me.
>
> "no way" is putting it too strongly. You just have to declare a prefix
> and use that. Same is true to refer to such elements in Xpath
> it's quite common to declare the same namesapce with "" and with a non
> empty prefix.

Then what is the point of having the default namespace?

> > In the end, however, I agree with Dare that the better thing would be to
get
> > rid of default namespaces.
>
> "default namespace" is just a namespace which has a current binding to a
> prefix of "" together with a syntactic quirk that if the prefix is ""
> then you omit the ":" isn't it?

Yes, that's what the default namespace is.  Of course, that also just
happens to be the same format for local elements and attributes (what I
refer to as being in the "document namespace").  As a result, it is
difficult to use elements in both the default and document namespace at the
same time.  The simple solution is to use a prefixed namespace instead
(though I know you can "undefine" the default namespace as well).  Then I
have to ask the same question again:  What is the point of having the
default namespace?

---
Seairth Jacobs
seairth@s...

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