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On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Martin Gudgin wrote: > > Also to clarify-- is Tim saying that the following is pointless because it > > equates to a prefixed name being treated as a non namespace name or is he > > saying that the document is in error wrt to namespaces because the prefix > > can not logically be resolved? > > > > <foo:bar xmlns:foo="http://foo.com"> > > <foo:baz xmlns:foo=""/> > > </foo:bar> > > The document is in error and most ( but not all :-) ) XML parsers would > throw an error of some kind. Not in my experience, but then those parsers might be incorrect... I see two statements that could be seen as conflicting: In the XML spec: The Namespaces in XML Recommendation [XML Names] assigns a meaning to names containing colon characters. Therefore, authors should not use the colon in XML names except for namespace purposes, but XML processors must accept the colon as a name character. So assuming there is no foo prefix in scope in the above, the processor must accept the colon anyway? But then in the namespaces spec: The Prefix provides the namespace prefix part of the qualified name, and must be associated with a namespace URI reference in a namespace declaration. Two possibly conflicting uses of "must" ? Expat and Gnome's libxml both accept the above document, FWIW. -- <Matt/> /|| ** Founder and CTO ** ** http://axkit.com/ ** //|| ** AxKit.com Ltd ** ** XML Application Serving ** // || ** http://axkit.org ** ** XSLT, XPathScript, XSP ** // \\| // ** mod_perl news and resources: http://take23.org ** \\// //\\ // \\
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