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Patrice Bonhomme wrote: > The WD says: "The namespace prefix, unless it is xml or xmlns, must have been > declared in a namespace declaration. The namespace prefixes xml and xmlns are > reserved, and considered to have been implicitly declared." > > 1/ The example following this definition uses a NS declared after its use : > "<html:html xmlns:html='http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40'>" The draft also says, "The namespace declaration is considered to apply to the element where it is specified and to all elements within the content of that element, unless overridden [...]." That's "to the element", not just to its content. The GI of an element is part of it, so the example is conformant. > We should have only one reserved name : "xml" !!! All names beginning "xml" or "XML" or "xML" or whatever are already reserved. > <book xml:ns="books"> <!-- the default NS is "books" --> > <title>Cheaper by the Dozen</title> > <!-- switch to "isbn" NS --> > <isbn:number>1568491379</isbn:number> ... That won't work. What *is* the "isbn" namespace? You haven't specified its URI anywhere. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@c... You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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