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Re: Global/Local attributes

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• Subject: Re: Global/Local attributes
• From: "Seairth Jacobs" <seairth@s...>
• Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 09:29:28 -0400
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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Carlisle" <davidc@n...>
=>
>
> > However, I would think that in the case above that "attr2" should belong
to
> > the default namespace, not the namespace that "elem2" belongs to.
>
> I don't see why.
> Even if you thought that would have been a better design in the
> beginning it is a far more radical change than Simon has proposed and
> would break nearly all existing uses of attributes.
> The overwhelming majority of attributes in existing document are
> unprefixed. You would change the way _all_ these are reported.

I agree.  It is a radical change.  However, the reasoning behind it was that
you currently have no way of using attributes defined in the default
namespace, which seems counter-intuitive to me.

In the end, however, I agree with Dare that the better thing would be to get
rid of default namespaces.  In some ways, my use of the ":" did the same
thing, but his solution is much cleaner, simpler, and 100% compatible with
the current Rec.

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Seairth Jacobs
seairth@s...

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