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> Simon, The feature isn't useless. Most people agree that attributes > are meant for annotating elements. The Namespaces in XML > recommendation allows authors to choose between context sensitive > attribute values E.g. > > <myns:Parent name="must be a number between 1 - 100"><myns:Child > name="can be any string"/></myns:Parent> > > or creating global attributes that represent the same idea regardless > of what element they appear on > > <myns:Parent myns:id="must be unique in document"><myns:Child > myns:id="must be unique in document"><></myns:Parent> I'm sorry, Dare, but in my world that's utterly useless, not to mention confusing and complicating. If you can find a genuinely good reason for this: <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://www.w3.org" about="http://www.w3.org/not/really/I'm/just/kidding/"> please let me know. Using global attributes to mean something different in a local context seems completely bizarre and desperately pointless to me. It's bad practice. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com
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