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Re: Re: URIs, concrete (was Re: Un-ask the question)

• To: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...>
• Subject: Re: Re: URIs, concrete (was Re: Un-ask the question)
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 11:59:22 -0600
• Cc: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...> of "Thu, 01 Aug 2002 10:33:50 PDT." <4F4182C71C1FDD4BA0937A7EB7B8B4C106028E8A@r...>
• Sender: uche.ogbuji@f...

> > > > I'm not suggesting that unprefixed attributes should be treated as
> > > > global attributes.  I think you're reading far too much into the
> > > > I've actually said.  I'm saying that in the context of a given
> > > > element, attributes should be treated as having the namespace
> context 
> > > > of their containing element rather than treated as having an
> ambiguous
> 
> 
> > > I'm no namespace expert, but I cannot see how you can do what you
> > > recommend without causing some attributes to unintentionally be
> promoted
> > > globally.
> 
> > Sorry.  What does this mean?
> 
> If two unprefixed attributes are treated as having the namespace context
> of their respective containing elements, as Simon suggests, then those
> unprefixed attributes will have the same namespace, and therefore the
> same context.  Right?

Yes.  Just as two preixed elements, regardless of where they are, can share 
namespace context.  I fail to see how this counts as "promotion" of an 
attribute to anything.


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