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Re: Re: [Sax-devel] Showstopper issue with new Attributetext

• To: Bob Foster <bob@o...>
• Subject: Re: Re: [Sax-devel] Showstopper issue with new Attributetext
• From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...>
• Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 02:14:11 +0100
• Cc: XML Developers List <xml-dev@l...>,SAX Developers' List <sax-devel@l...>
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Bob Foster wrote:
> Where did the "http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/" URI come from? The 
> Namespaces In XML spec specifically says: "The prefix xmlns is used only 
> for namespace bindings and is not itself bound to any namespace name."
> 
> Am I missing some errata, or is there some complexity-multiplying going 
> on here? It sure seems like a SAX feature that should be dropped should 
> not be used to justify contradicting the namespaces recommendation.

You are missing an erratum to NS 1.0, and the NS 1.1 spec (as well as 
DOM 2 which IIRC was the first to cite it).

See notably:

   http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-names-19990114-errata
   (NE05)

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-names11-20040204/#ns-decl
   (towards the end of section 3)

-- 
Robin Berjon

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