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Re: If prefix is exactly 'xml'

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• Subject: Re: If prefix is exactly 'xml'
• From: Richard Tobin <richard@c...>
• Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 19:00:54 GMT
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• In-reply-to: <OF905969C5.A51CA293-ON85256CCD.0069D36E@t...>
• Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh

In article <OF905969C5.A51CA293-ON85256CCD.0069D36E@t...> you write:

>" The prefix xml is by definition bound to the namespace name
>http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. It may, but need not, be declared,
>and must not be bound to any other namespace name. No other prefix may be
>bound to this namespace name. "

>Does this mean that if the user does use the 'xml' prefix, should the
>processor reject all local parts other than 'lang' and 'space'?  (ie.
>should <A xml:root = " ... " /> be a fatal error?)

No.  It's not about what xml:whatever attributes you can use.  It's about
declaring the prefix "xml" and the namespace 
http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace.

It means you can't use "xml" as a prefix referring to your namespace,
like this:

  <foo xmlns:xml="http://example.org/my/namespace">

and that you can't use some other prefix to refer to the xml namespace,
like this:

  <foo xmlns:yml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace">

-- Richard

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