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In article <017201c85925$95d70d60$6501a8c0@turtle> you write: >The XML specification does not actually say what processors should do when >they encounter a name that is "reserved for standardization", but the >consensus is that it is not an error to use such a name and therefore they >should at most give a warning. The Namespaces spec is a bit more explicit about this. For prefixes beginning "xml" is says: * users SHOULD NOT use them except as defined by later specifications * processors MUST NOT treat them as fatal errors. There's always the risk that a processor might ignore something that a newer specification has declared that it should interpret, but the idea is to ensure that low-level components don't reject documents because they contain new features that a higher-level component will be able to interpret. An XML 1.0 processor that rejected xmlns attributes because they were reserved would not have been usable with a namespace processing layer, and a namespace-aware processor that rejected xml:id attributes would not have been usable with an xml:id layer. -- Richard
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