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Re: Invalid attribute names

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• Subject: Re: Invalid attribute names
• From: Toni Uusitalo <toni.uusitalo@p...>
• Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 11:51:02 +0200

At 03:08 1.1.2004, you wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 09:37:41PM +0200, Toni Uusitalo wrote:
> > At 21:28 31.12.2003, you wrote:
> > >An attribute name of ":test" implies a blank prefix name, which is
> > >illegal.
> >
> > Yes, but couldn't that be treated simply as attribute (or same with 
> element
> > name of course)
> > not belonging to any namespace, what's the danger of treating it that way?
>
>The colon is reerved for use by the namespace specification.
>
>Yes, namespaces might have been dsigned differently - but we needed
>experience with a flat (local-part, URI) design before introducing
>anything more complex.
>
>Currently, the namespaces in XML specification doesn't allow a name
>to start with a colon or to contain more than one colon, because it
>hasn't assigned a meaning for them.  Furthermore, a name starting with
>a colon isn't a legal "name" token in XML, so they syntax doesn't
>allow that either.

Ok. I understand, if parser is in the namespace aware mode it
shouldn't allow colons for name start character or multiple colons,
the namespaces in XML spec is very clear on that matter;
colon is just reserved. I Accept this ;-)



with respect,
Toni Uusitalo

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