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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 -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Norman Gray http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK norman@a...
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