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

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• Subject: Re: Re: URIs, concrete (was Re: Un-ask the question)
• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 18:15:17 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <E17aJOW-0004RM-00@m...> (message from Uche Ogbuji onThu, 01 Aug 2002 11:05:28 -0600)
• References: <E17aJOW-0004RM-00@m...>

> Our alternate rule is just as simple:
> 
> Attributes in the same namespace as their element are local.
> Attributes in a different namespace are global.

Sorry that rule isn't as good.

xlink attributes are in a namespace so I expect them to be global and can be
used more or less anywhere. If xlink also had elements (as I think it
did at one time) then I wouldn't want the interpretation of the xlink
attributes to change just because they had suddenly become local if used
on an xlink element.

If the html namespace had a src attribute I would expect to use
html:src anywhere. Currently it doesn't, so there is no such global
attribute. If the unprefixed src attribute is in the html namespace
your rule above tells me that it is local while on an html element but
says nothing about whether it can be used as a global attribute as well.

David

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