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If there are no default namespaces then there is no problem #2. If an element/attribute isn't prefixed then there is no ambiguity; It has no namespace name. What have I missed? -- PITHY WORDS OF WISDOM Never be the boss' right hand man if he's left handed. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. > -----Original Message----- > From: Kian-Tat Lim [mailto:ktl@k...] > Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 12:02 PM > To: xml-dev@l... > Subject: Re: Default namespaces are *evil*! (RE: > Global/Local attributes) > > > Aaron Skonnard wrote: > > And this madness [of attribute rule vs. element rule for unprefixed > > names] would go away with the death of default namespaces. > > That solves one problem, but not the other. > > The problems are: > > 1) Without surrounding context, it is not possible to > determine whether an unprefixed name belongs to no namespace > or to the default namespace. > > 2) There are two kinds of names: names belonging to no > namespace and names belonging to a namespace. > > Killing default namespaces only takes care of problem #1. > > Killing "no namespace" names in namespaced documents takes > care of both problems simultaneously. > > Default namespaces are not evil; they are just a syntactic > shorthand or minimization. No-namespace names are the true evil. > > -- > Kian-Tat Lim, ktl@k..., UTF-7: +Z5de+pBU- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org > <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
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