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 > I think that's a weak comparison at best true:-) > especially from the > perspective (which monasticxml.org takes explicitly) that attributes are > meta-markup, adding extra information about the nature of elements > rather than being their children in any sense. They may be used that way but that isn't implied by the XML spec (or their use in SGML) If you have <img src="foo.gif"/> then the src attribute isn't really some meta markup with extra information it's more the other way round, the attribue is the main data carrier and the element is just a syntaxtic device to carry the attribute and group it with other attributes (alt etc)/ > In any event, the namespace status of child elements is clearly known, > at least until W3C XML Schema's unqualified child elements poisons the > context situation further. that occured to me as I wrote the example as well, but I thought that was just too horrible to mention at that time of night... I think the distinction between attributes in a namespace and attributes not in a namespace is that unnamespaced attributes are closely tied to specififc elements. I can go <html:img src="foo.gif"/> but I can't go <html:p src="...">.. Conversely because Xlink attributes are in a namespace, I expect (if I'm using the Xlink namespace at all) to stick them on anything. If I want to make an html p into some kind of xlink then <html:p xlink:href="...">.. If things worked as you say that should have worked then this distinction would not be available <html:img src="foo.gif"/> would be equivalent to <html:img html:src="foo.gif"/> which would lead me to expect to be able to put html:src on a p <html:p html:src="...">... or even, reversing the equivalence, <html:p src="...">... David _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. 
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