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Re: My report on experiments with unused namespaces

• From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
• To: Pete Cordell <petexmldev@codalogic.com>
• Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:24:56 +0100

On 22/09/2010 13:13, Pete Cordell wrote:
> So xmlns:numberOfItems="3" is not legal.

It's legal according to the namespace spec, but deprecated by a later 
note. Relative URI references are allowed but deprecated, the result of 
a long winded discussion some years after the namespace rec was 
published as noted in (at least) the third edition of the namespace spec.

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#iri-use


The use of relative URI references, including same-document references, 
in namespace declarations is deprecated.

Note:

This deprecation of relative URI references was decided on by a W3C XML 
Plenary Ballot [Relative URI deprecation]. It also declares that "later 
specifications such as DOM, XPath, etc. will define no interpretation 
for them".


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