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Re: foo:space instead of xml:space?

  • From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
  • To: Mike Brown <mbrown@c...>,"'xml-dev@l...'" <xml-dev@l...>
  • Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 12:54:36 -0700

xml space
At 12:30 PM 27/10/00 -0600, Mike Brown wrote:

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

It might be reasonable for an application to do this, but it
wouldn't be reasonable for an XML data creator to count on this
working, because xml:space is defined in the XML 1.0 spec which
only knows about the magic "xml" prefix, not the namespace-aware
meaning that retroactively layered onto it in the namespace rec.
 
Andrew Layman actually suggested *forbidding* the tying of that
URI to anything but "xml:" and nearly convinced me that was a
good idea.  He might well have been right. -Tim


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