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

• To: "'Simon St.Laurent'" <simonstl@s...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Re: URIs, concrete (was Re: Un-ask the question)
• From: Bill de hÓra <bill.dehora@p...>
• Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 15:03:05 +0100
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• In-reply-to: <r01050300-1015-A6F7D242A55211D693BB0003937A08C2@[192.168.124.21]>
• Organization: Propylon
• Reply-to: <bill.dehora@p...>

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> From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...] 
> 
> Maybe it's worth making a point that 
> namespaces for global attributes should be distinct from 
> namespaces for elements?  That seems to be a fairly common 
> design pattern, though I'm not sure I want to hold up XLink 
> or W3C XML Schema's xsi:stuff as a shining example.

If you have an XML langauge which has an attribute that is supposed to
mean the same thing wherever it appears, then with a little thought, the
thing to do is mandate that attribute has a URI, ie in XML it has a
QName. Thus under XMLNS, the attribute gets prefixed in all contexts.

regards,
Bill de hÓra

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Propylon
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