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RE: Namespace declaration versus attribute

• To: "'Amelia A Lewis'" <amyzing@t...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Namespace declaration versus attribute
• From: Bill de hÓra <bill.dehora@p...>
• Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 09:57:01 +0100
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <20020820155700.GA9516@t...>
• Organization: Propylon
• Reply-to: <bill.dehora@p...>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amelia A Lewis [mailto:amyzing@t...] 
>
> Add namespace-awareness to the processor, and both examples 
> are now DTD-valid.  

No they're not. If a parser told you that, it has a defect, and you
should report it. 


> It follows that the namespaces 
> recommendation either changes the content model of every 
> element, permitting the xmlns attribute and any attribute in 
> the namespace bound to the prefix xmlns (which is different 
> than the namespace bound by the xmlns attribute).  Or 
> namespace declarations are not attributes.

It doesn't follow when you're using a defective parser. On the other
hand if a lot of parsers are doing that, perhaps the parser writers
should being feeding back into the XML Activity ;)

regards,
Bill de hÓra

..
Propylon
www.propylon.com 

 

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