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Re: the infoset is two infosets (or even three?) [was:

• To: Erik Wilde <net.dret@d...>
• Subject: Re: the infoset is two infosets (or even three?) [was:
• From: Daniel Veillard <veillard@r...>
• Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 09:15:51 -0400
• Cc: AndrewWatt2000@a..., amyzing@t..., xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <3D623E98.5000703@d...>; from net.dret@d... on Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 03:05:28PM +0200
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On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 03:05:28PM +0200, Erik Wilde wrote:
> AndrewWatt2000@a... wrote:
> > I hesitate to comment on this having twice had my knuckles rapped this 
> > week - by Tim Bray and Norman Walsh - for believing what a W3C Rec 
> > states... :) ... but the Namespace in XML Recommendation seems to say 
> > the opposite to what you "repeat, ad nauseam":
> 
> i guess the infoset gets it just right by defining that namespace 
> declarations are in fact attributes, but special attributes. telling 
> people that namespace declarations are not attributes seems to be 
> motivated (at least i think so) by the attempt to save people from poor 
> implementations which are not smart enough to see namespace declarations 
> as special attributes (and maybe they should even complain if people try 
> to create 'regular' attributes which appear to have namespace 
> declaration syntax).

  My view is that there is simply a terminology overlapping, sometimes
"attribute" means attribute at a serialization level, and sometimes
"attribute" means a parsed representation of an attribute (for DOM or
the Infoset). The namespace REC simply state that at a serialization
level the mechanism used is attributes, but the internal representation
of an parsed namespace information is usually not the one of a simple
attribute, that's all ...

Daniel

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