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Original Message From: "Kurt Cagle" >> What would we lose if attributes were not namespaced? >> > ... > The biggest issue I can see with that is with either xlink or xmlid, and > neither of those are showstoppers: > > <chapter xml:id="foo">Bar</chapter> becomes > > <xml:target id="foo"><chapter>Bar</chapter></xml:target> Can't we just treat members of the xml namespace as special? Since this proposal never cuts up tags around colons, and doesn't assign any meaning to bits before a colon and bits after a colon, xml:id and friends can be just treated as opaque quantities. i.e. <chapter xml:id="foo">Bar</chapter> is OK. Pete Cordell
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