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Re: foo:space instead of xml:space?

• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• To: Mike Brown <mbrown@c...>
• Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 15:04:23 -0400

Mike Brown wrote:

> Should applications only recognize xml:space as xml:space,

Yes.

> or would
> it be correct to also recognize foo:space, if the foo prefix is
> bound to 'http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace'?

No.  The "xml" prefix gets a namespace as a matter of convenience,
but is itself magic.  To assume otherwise would hurt interoperability.
The same is true of the "xmlns" prefix.

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