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Re: The subsetting has begun

• To: Bill de hÓra <bill@d...>
• Subject: Re: The subsetting has begun
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 08:43:49 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <3E5B3C5B.40507@d...>
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At 9:50 AM +0000 2/25/03, Bill de hÓra wrote:

>I'm not exagerrating. And what you're saying is irrelevant. XML
>documents without an xmlms attribute on the root doesn't have a
>meaningful XML Infoset. I'll stick my neck and say most XML
>documents are not namespaced.

Any document that is namespace well-formed has an Infoset, including
documents that don't use namespaces at all, providing they also don't
use colons in element and attributes names (except for xml: of course)
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  • Re: The subsetting has begun
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