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RE: MSXML3SP3 vs illegal characters

• To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@c...>
• Subject: RE: MSXML3SP3 vs illegal characters
• From: "Praj Joshi" <pjoshi@m...>
• Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 11:01:30 -0700
• Cc: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...>,"Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@g...>,"XML DEV" <xml-dev@l...>,"Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
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What do you mean by bogus error here?

According to the namespaces spec
(http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#ns-qualnames)

*********************
Namespace Constraint: Leading "XML"
Prefixes beginning with the three-letter sequence x, m, l, in any case
combination, are reserved for use by XML and XML-related specifications.
*********************

So I would expect any conformant XML parser to throw an error for a
namespace declaration like
xmlns:xml='http://www.w3.org/xml/1998/namespace'. 

I just confirmed that MSXML30 SP3 throws an error in this case.

-----Original Message-----
From: Henry S. Thompson [mailto:ht@c...] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 2:13 AM
To: Praj Joshi
Cc: Joshua Allen; Julian Reschke; XML DEV
Subject: Re:  MSXML3SP3 vs illegal characters

Will this release also fix the bogus error if you declare
xmlns:xml='http://www.w3.org/xml/1998/namespace', i.e. the correct
value?

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