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Ron Bourret wrote: > As far as I know, the xmlns attribute is inherited -- this is certainly implied > by the first example in section 5 of the namespace spec. (Murata Makoto also > implies in a separate message that the prefix is not inherited. Why?) Because we cannot replace <foo:A xmlns:foo="[first URI]" xmlns:bar="[second URI]" > <foo:B /> <foo:C /> <bar:D /> </foo:A> with something like <foo:A xmlns:foo="[first URI]" xmlns:bar="[second URI]" > <:B /> <:C /> <bar:D /> </foo:A> This is what I meant by inheritance of prefixes, and it does not exist in the current working draft. Makoto Fuji Xerox Information Systems Tel: +81-44-812-7230 Fax: +81-44-812-7231 E-mail: murata@a... 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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