Re: Names beginning with "xml"

Liam R E Quin scripsit:

> This feels to me a bit like some of the XML constraints for
> compatibility with SGML... a note that xml:* element and attribute names
> are reserved, or should be used compatibly with XML, is sufficient
> _unless_ you want all well-formed microxml to be well-formed XML (which
> does seem to follow from the use cases on the wiki), and in that case
> xml:space="collapse" or xml:mother have to be errors.

Those are not well-formedness errors in XML.  It's just that if you use
them for your own purposes, don't complain when the gnomes of Zurich^W^W^W^W
the XML Core Working Group repurposes them.

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Received on Thursday, 16 August 2012 18:53:29 UTC