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RE: Global/Local attributes

• To: "David Carlisle" <davidc@n...>,<seairth@s...>
• Subject: RE: Global/Local attributes
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 08:04:32 -0700
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
• Thread-index: AcI6ND+k2hjLt4/TS8i1fWARe0AnrAAAQ8hG
• Thread-topic: Global/Local attributes

XML isn't HTML. I'd have favored having XHTML force users to explicitly namespace their documents so they KNOW they aren't just writing HTML with a funky new attribute at the top of the document. 
 
Tools could even have been developed to do this automatically(inject namespaces and prefixes into unnamespaced documents). Tools which would have been trivial to write I might add. 

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@n...] 
	Sent: Fri 8/2/2002 7:27 AM 
	To: seairth@s... 
	Cc: xml-dev@l... 
	Subject: Re:  Global/Local attributes
	
	


	> What is the point of having the default namespace?
	
	using short prefixes is not very interesting to machines, but sometimes
	useful for humans. "" is particulary good for that and as Thomas (I
	think) said it's useful as a way of converting legacy documents (or
	legacy authors).
	
	It's a lot easier to tell people to stick xmlns="lkhhglhgl" at the top
	of their XHTML file but then write something that looks basically like
	html than to tell people to write
	<xhtml:a href="..."  or  <xhtml:a xhtml:href="..."
	all over the place. It doesn't make much difference to the browser
	whether "" or "xhtml:" is used but if you are writing the input by hand
	it does make a difference.
	
	
	David
	
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