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Re: Re: URIs, concrete (was Re: Un-ask the question)

  • To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
  • Subject: Re: Re: URIs, concrete (was Re: Un-ask the question)
  • From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
  • Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 10:43:12 -0600
  • Cc: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>, XML DEV <xml-dev@l...>
  • In-reply-to: Message from "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...> of "Wed, 31 Jul 2002 18:10:55 EDT." <r01050300-1015-627F11D4A4D211D693BB0003937A08C2@[192.168.124.21]>
  • Sender: uche.ogbuji@f...

Re:  Re: URIs
> Tim Bray writes:
> > And yes, it is obvious that an attribute can draw the bulk of its 
> > semantic import from the namespace it's in, rather than the context of 
> > the containing element.  Consider
> > 
> > <anyOldElementAtAllIDontCareWhich xml:lang="fr">Bonjour!  ...
> 
> Yes, and you've completely missed my point yet again.  I'm not arguing
> that prefixed attributes should be in the namespace of the element
> containing them.  I'm arguing that _unprefixed_ attributes should be
> treated as if they had the same namespace as the element containing
> them.

Ah.  So Simon and I *are* arguing just the same thing.  Cool.  We're beginning 
to be a cabal, Simon.  :-)


> > There's a technical term for Simon's argument in this case: "wrong".

Is there a technical argument to back this up?


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