[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message]

RE: My report on experiments with unused namespaces

• From: Richard Salz <rsalz@us.ibm.com>
• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
• Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:34:22 -0400

> > Of course it has a zillion (technical term :) false positives.
> 
> Rich, would you elaborate upon this please?

Sure.    This fails to validate because a:Root isn't legal.  It also fails 
to validate because a:child/@covertchannel isn't defined in the DTD. 
Imagine instead that the attribute is xml:id.  So that's a false positive 
-- validation failed, but the document is okay.

<a:Root xmlns:a="http://www.used.org">
        <a:child covertchannel='foo'>true</a:child>
</a:Root>

        /r$

--
STSM, WebSphere Appliance Architect
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/soma/

• References:
  • My report on experiments with unused namespaces
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
  • Re: My report on experiments with unused namespaces
    • From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
  • RE: My report on experiments with unused namespaces
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
  • RE: My report on experiments with unused namespaces
    • From: Amelia A Lewis <amyzing@talsever.com>
  • RE: My report on experiments with unused namespaces
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
  • RE: My report on experiments with unused namespaces
    • From: Amelia A Lewis <amyzing@talsever.com>
  • Re: My report on experiments with unused namespaces
    • From: Ramkumar Menon <ramkumar.menon@gmail.com>
  • Re: My report on experiments with unused namespaces
    • From: Amelia A Lewis <amyzing@talsever.com>
  • Re: My report on experiments with unused namespaces
    • From: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@codalogic.com>
  • Re: My report on experiments with unused namespaces
    • From: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@codalogic.com>
  • Re: My report on experiments with unused namespaces
    • From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
  • Re: My report on experiments with unused namespaces
    • From: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@codalogic.com>
  • Re: My report on experiments with unused namespaces
    • From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
  • RE: My report on experiments with unused namespaces
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
  • RE: My report on experiments with unused namespaces
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>