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Re: Re: URIs, concrete (was Re: Un-ask thequestion)

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• Subject: Re: Re: URIs, concrete (was Re: Un-ask thequestion)
• From: Norman Gray <norman@a...>
• Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:51:10 +0100 (BST)
• In-reply-to: <200208011748.SAA23745@m...>

Greetings,

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Richard Tobin wrote:

> There's no point in having a namespaced version of an attribute that
> is only ever used on elements from that namespace [*].

Well, there is, since this is the only way to get an attribute in a
namespace using only the logic of the current spec -- that is, without
the effective extension to the spec that Simon is suggesting as best
practice.

> It's verbose ...

This is XML -- if folk cared about verbosity it, and especially XSLT,
would look very different!  (I'm only partly joking).

In any case, the application's semantics can sweep up no-namespace
attributes, just as XSLT processors are obliged to observe the
no-namespace attributes on `xsl:' namespace elements.

> (b) Always use the unnamespaced version on elements from the same
>     namespace.

...which is this case, I think.

All the best,

Norman


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