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Re: Question about the sytax of namespace declarations

• To: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Subject: Re: Question about the sytax of namespace declarations
• From: Daniel Veillard <veillard@r...>
• Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:36:21 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <5.1.0.14.2.20020227140834.0232d830@p...>; from tbray@t... on Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 02:12:01PM -0800
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On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 02:12:01PM -0800, Tim Bray wrote:
> At 12:41 PM 27/02/02 -0800, Wayne Steele wrote:
> >Question:
> >
> >Is the below document "conforming" with regard to the XML-Namespaces rec?
> >
> ><root xmlns:a="" />
> 
> It's not, but this is probably a bug BTW.  You can "undeclare" the
> default namespace like so:
> 
> <root xmlns="foo" >
>  <child xmlns="" />
>  </root>
> 
> so why shouldn't you be able to undeclare other prefixes, e.g.
> 
> <root xmlns:foo="bar" >
>   <child xmlns:foo="" />
>   </root>
> 
> James Clark was the first to notice this, but that was after
> namespaces had been out for a year.
> 
> BTW, *nobody* thinks it's a good idea to allow a namespace name 
> to be an empty string - if the abovec were allowed, it would
> strictly be in the interests of undeclaring prefixes; which
> would break no existing namespace semantics.  Who knows,
> it might even get done someday. -Tim

  I have good faith it will be done, yes.

Daniel

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