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"Shawn Silverman" <shawn@a...> writes: > I'm confused about how namespaces should be applied to attributes. Here > are two questions: > 1) > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <!-- all elements here are explicitly in the HTML namespace --> > <html:html xmlns:html='http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40'> > <html:head><html:title>Frobnostication</html:title></html:head> > <html:body><html:p>Moved to > <html:a href='http://frob.com'>here.</html:a></html:p></html:body> > </html:html> > > To which namespace does the "href" attribute in the "html:a" tag > belong? To the same one as its parent? "html:"? In the end, the Namespaces spec ended up making <html:a html:href="foo.xml">..</html:a> and <html:a href="foo.xml">..</html:a> distinguishable. That doesn't mean that applications are *forced* to distinguish the two href's, but that they can do so if they want (they can also treat the two as equivalent if they wish). There's an unfortunately convoluted appendix in the Namespaces spec on this topic, but it may not be helpful. Personally, I objected fairly strongly (and verbosely) to this decision at the time, because I thought that it dealt with an extremely esoteric case at the cost of significant potential for confusion and added API complexity. So far, it seems that both RDF and XHTML treat the two cases as equivalent (though neither says so explicitly) and I have yet to see an XML+Namespaces application that actually cares about the distinction, but there's still time for me to be proven wrong. It's always hard to guess when you're writing specs ahead of the implementors, and many people whose opinions I respect disagreed with me. > 2) > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <doc xmlns="mydefault"> > <mytag myatt="blah"/> > </doc> > > To which namespace does the "myatt" attribute belong? The spec says > that the default namespace doesn't apply, however from question 1, we > can infer that attributes take on the namespace of their parents. I'm > assuming, though, that "myatt" belongs to no namespace. What shall I > assume here? This is exactly the same situation as above -- it doesn't matter whether you're using explicit prefixes or a default Namespace. All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/ 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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