Re: [css3-namespace] Last call comments from XHTML2 WG

Greetings Steven, from my perspectice, this seems like a reasonable last 
call comment.

Regards, Roland
FBCS, CITP
IBM Software Group, Strategy, Software Standards




"Steven Pemberton" <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl> 
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05/03/2008 15:42

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[css3-namespace] Last call comments from XHTML2 WG







Here is my proposed text for the CSS Namespaces last call comment from the 
 
XHTML2 WG.

Steven
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Dear CSS WG,

In the context of the following

                 @namespace "http://example.org/ns"
 
                 foo {color: green}

with a non-namespaced CSS processor all elements named foo will be green, 
while with a namespaced processor, only elements in the namespace named 
will be green.

This seems to break an axiom of CSS versioning that later versions of CSS 
should not change the processing of earlier versions; it will therefore 
make it hard to make a stylesheet that works regardless of the presence of 
 
namespace processing.

It would seem better if unqualified names continue to behave in the same 
way as non-namespaced processors, and that to select a particular 
namespaced version of an element, you should always use a qualified name.

Best wishes,

Steven Pemberton
For the XHTML2 WG








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