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With respect and concern, since going up against Tim _and_ Andrew is pretty risky at the best of times, I think it's crucial that I be allowed to use whatever prefix I like for the 'http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace' namespace. Just because it's magic 'forwards' (i.e. xml: always works, without a declaration), doesn't mean it has to be magic 'backwards' (i.e. the only prefix allowed for that NS URI is 'xml'). To do that seems to me to take away one of the fundamental designed-in flexibilities of the Namespace REC, namely that prefixes are for _my_ convenience. It would require a significant and messy change to XML Schema as currently spec'ed to impose this restriction: as it stands we treat the XML namespace like any other (indeed there's a thread running elsewhere about the XML Schema document which now lives at http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace.xsd), and the schema document for XML Schemas itself (at http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema.xsd) uses 'x:' for importing and declaring xml:lang. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh W3C Fellow 1999--2001, part-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@c... URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/
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