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• To: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: Namespaces blur (A multi-step approach on defining object-orientednature of DOM)
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 07:51:12 -0400
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At 8:35 AM +0200 8/22/02, Eric van der Vlist wrote:


>This is wanted per the namespaces rec for attributes: local
>(unqualified) attributes do not have namespace URIs but are considered
>to "belong" to the namespace of their parent element

I really don't like this model. I know what you're trying to do but I 
think it causes too much confusion. I think it's much more accurate 
and less confusing to say "local (unqualified) attributes do not have 
namespace URIs but are considered to "belong" to their parent 
element", not to belong to the namespace of their parent element. 
What does it mean to belong to a namespace anyway?
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