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Shawn Silverman scripsit: > To which namespace does the "href" attribute in the "html:a" tag > belong? To the same one as its parent? "html:"? Neither. Attribute names with colons belong to the namespace specified by their prefix, but attribute names without colons are not subject to namespace rules: they just have to be unique within their element type, and have no connection to other element types or namespaces at all. > 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 The same answer. There is no such thing as a default namespace for attributes, because unprefixed attributes (unlike unprefixed elements) can never belong to the namespace system. -- John Cowan cowan@c... I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin 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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