RE: Names beginning with "xml"

if attributes xml:* is allowed but reserved.
What is the data model for the QName of say  xml:abc    (ignore for now "abc" is not yet defined ... I want to avoid pulling in the other specs).

Localname = "abc" ?
Localname = "xml:abc" ?

If the former then we need a namespace for QNames in the data model (to distinguish from an attribute "abc" )
If the later we break XML1.0+NS compatibility in the data model.

I am all for making it a syntax error to have colons in names AND using xmlns as an attribute name.
That way ALL uXML documents can be parsed with an XML1.0+NS parser and we have a chance of a reasonable compatible data model.



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Received on Thursday, 16 August 2012 16:31:10 UTC