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Re: Re: URIs, concrete

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• Subject: Re: Re: URIs, concrete
• From: jborden@a...
• Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 16:47:46 +0000
• Cc: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>

Simon St.Laurent wrote:

[[
The namespaces specification made a simple but horrid 
mistake in failing to recognize the close relationship 
between an attribute and its containing element.  That 
there is a difference between:

<x:foo x:bar="bogus"/>

and:

<x:foo bar="bogus"/>

seems like yet another consequence of a disastrous 
specification.  ... It's time to start fixing stuff 
instead of just letting bad decisions perpetuate 
themselves.  In practice, I really doubt that this will 
break ANY applications.
]]

It has been generally acknowledged that you are correct 
in that there _ought not_ be such a distinction but the 
problem is that changing the specification at this stage 
of the game, actually would break any number of real 
world programs e.g.

<xsl:template match="x:foo[@x:bar]"> ...

now perhaps such XSLT could be recognized and auto-
xformed into:

<xsl:template match="x:foo[@bar]"> ...

but I'm sure that I've written something like the above 
any number of times.

Jonathan

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