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Tim Bray wrote: > > At 05:06 PM 2/8/99 -0500, David Megginson wrote: > >In response to several private requests, I've recast my posting into a > >simple HTML page at the following location: > > David, this is a terrific piece of work. One of your answers makes > me nervous: > > [Q] What is the name of the third attribute in the example above? > [A] The name is xmlns:z from the XML 1.0 perspective; from the Namespaces > perspective, this attribute is a declaration. > > Somehow the part beginning "... from the Namespaces perspective" feels > a bit like the question is being dodged: I'm spinning my wheels a bit > in trying to suggest something better. The point that's not being made > is that in a namespace-aware system, the xmlns:z attribute is > possibly just not there. For example (I just checked) if you use > expat and enable namespace processing, you just don't see the > xmlns attributes expat should probably have a start/endNamespaceDeclaration callback: some applications (such as XSL) need to know what declarations are in effect. > - I don't think this is compulsory, but it also > isn't surprising. I'll try to think this over some more, but somehow > > [Q] What's it's name? > [A] It's a declaration. > > doesn't quite feel satisfying. Seems OK to me. Compare: [Q] What is the target name in <?xml version="1.0"?> processing instruction? [A] From the XML 1.0 perspective, it's not a processing instruction, it's a declaration. James 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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