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[Simon St.Laurent] > * All element types and attribute names contain either zero or one > colon. > * No entity names, PI targets, or notation names contain any colons. > > I can understand the first part just fine. But why bar colons from > every other use of Name in the spec? Future use. The application of namespaces to entities isn't fully understood right now, but if colons in entity names are declared meaningless now, then any future attempt to attach meaning later will be a disaster. It's the same reason that colons in names (except xml:lang and xml:space) were declared to be reserved for experimental use in XML 1.0. -Chris -- <!NOTATION SGML.Geek PUBLIC "-//Anonymous//NOTATION SGML Geek//EN"> <!ENTITY crism PUBLIC "-//O'Reilly//NONSGML Christopher R. Maden//EN" "<URL>http://www.oreilly.com/people/staff/crism/ <TEL>+1.617.499.7487 <USMAIL>90 Sherman Street, Cambridge, MA 02140 USA" NDATA SGML.Geek> 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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