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 Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > The local name property of the attribute information item for an xmlns > attribute is xmlns. The prefix property for the attribute information > corresponding to an xmlns attribute has no value. Therefore, when SAX > reports these I maintain that the local name should be xmlns, not the > empty string. The qualified name should also be xmlns. This is still a > showstopper issue, even allowing xmlns attributes into the > http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/ namespace. OK, people, what do we do here? Here are my opinions: 1. Anyone who writes an application that actually cares about the Namespace assigned to xmlns attributes is f#@$%@#$ed in the head and deserves whatever happens. 2. That said, we still have a responsibility to try to do the right thing. If we get it wrong, though, it doesn't matter all that much (see #1). So, bearing all that in mind, what should we report for the following Namespace declaration? <foo xmlns="http://www.example.org/ns#"/> a) an attribute with no Namespace URI and the local name "xmlns"; b) an attribute with the Namespace URI "http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/" and no local name; or c) an attribute with the Namespace URI "http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/" and the local name "xmlns". Note that none of these is a clean solution, probably because Namespaces 1.1 is a bit broken. Then again, I doubt it matters much. If no one presents a convincing argument, I'll just pick one of the three at random. Apathetically yours, David 
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