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<xml:hi/>
I read the last specification of the XML Namespaces this night. To tell the
truth it disturbed me somewhat !
* Namespace Constraint: Prefix Declared
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'>"
I am not sure that attribute-based is the best way for declaring NS. Why
not have preserved the old specification for the declarations of XML
Namespaces (using PI) ? And use something like :
<?xml:namespace ns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" prefix="html"?>
<html:html xml:ns='html'> ... </html:html>
Create another reserved name (xmlns) weighs down the XML notation and
opens the door to already encountered problems (remenber HTML!). Each one
(Microsoft, Netscape, Sun, ...) will arrive with its own reserved name and one
will fall down in the same problems as with HTML (<OBJECT> vs <EMBED> for
example). We should have only one reserved name : "xml" !!!
2/ There is a redundancy of information.
A simple prefix is enough to specify the namespace used :
<book xmlns='urn:loc.gov:books' xmlns:isbn='urn:ISBN:0-395-36341-6'>
<title>Cheaper by the Dozen</title>
<isbn:number>1568491379</isbn:number> ...
Should be :
<book xml:ns="books"> <!-- the default NS is "books" -->
<title>Cheaper by the Dozen</title>
<!-- switch to "isbn" NS -->
<isbn:number>1568491379</isbn:number> ...
This makes also XML document not easily readable.
3/ Implementation.
If i understand the new WD, it's possible to have everywhere within the
document (in each Element start tag) a Namespace declaration. Hum, i agree
with James Clark that it is easy to implement but we have to provide for each
Element object an 'xmlns' attribute and make inherited each one of its
descendants.
Pat.
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