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At 12:14 06/01/00 -0800, Tim Bray <tbray@t...> wrote: >>> Basically, then, the main question was whether the attribute names in >>> the following two examples are identical: >>> <html:a href="foo"> >>> <html:a html:href="foo"> >The namespace spec could have said one of three things: > >1. These must always be treated as identical >2. These must always be treated as different >3. Applications can make up their minds > >The then-Working Group eventually went for #3. The trouble with #3 is that it makes the semantics of an XML document depend on its consuming application, not its originating application. XML provides a tool for publishing data so that it can be processed by a wide range of applications over which the author has no control. These consuming applications should not, IMHO, have been given the option of misinterpreting the data in this way. -- Cheers, John 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 unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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