- From: Ennals, Robert <robert.ennals@intel.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:32:52 +0000
- To: Philip Taylor <pjt47@cam.ac.uk>
- CC: "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>, "Carr, Wayne" <wayne.carr@intel.com>
I guess that means that we do want a work-around then. Does the trick of requiring an @extension attribute in order for xmlns to have meaning sound good to you? -Rob > -----Original Message----- > From: Philip Taylor [mailto:pjt47@cam.ac.uk] > Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 2:20 PM > To: Ennals, Robert > Cc: public-html@w3.org WG; Carr, Wayne > Subject: Re: Possible Conservative Proposal : no prefixes, but allow > xmlns on a root element > > Ennals, Robert wrote: > > Do you know how common that is on the web? > > Common enough that I could find an example fairly easily, rare enough > that I didn't want to bother finding more :-) > > There's some raw data at > http://philip.html5.org/data/xmlns-attributes-raw.txt.bz2 containing > (url, element-name, attribute-name-beginning-with-xmlns, > attribute-value) data (tab-separated, with XML escaping of all strings) > derived from parsing the pages described in > http://philip.html5.org/data/dotbot-20090424.txt (not restricted to > text/html), if anyone wants to look in more detail at this kind of > thing. > > -- > Philip Taylor > pjt47@cam.ac.uk
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