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RE: Why associate an attribute with a namespace ?

• To: <mihaiu@m...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Why associate an attribute with a namespace ?
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:32:12 -0000
• In-reply-to: <1108581780.42139d940d63d@w...>
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The rationale is to allow attributes whose semantics are independent of the
element they appear on: examples are xml:lang, xml:base, xsi:type,
xsl:version.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mihaiu@m... [mailto:mihaiu@m...] 
> Sent: 16 February 2005 19:23
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject:  Why associate an attribute with a namespace ?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
>             Attributes cannot exist without an element. If 
> the element is
> attached to a namespace then than should ensure that there 
> will be no conflict
> with other elements with a similar same name but from 
> different namespaces.
> Attributes cannot be accessed outside the context of 
> elements. Since elements
> are uniquely identified so are their attributes.
>             Is there any logic for allowing this (like SGML 
> compatibility) ?
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Razvan
> 
> 
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