Re: Call for Review of XHTML Test Cases 142, 147, and 154

Philip Taylor wrote:
> Ivan Herman wrote:
>>> TC147: approved/rejected/approved with modifications/needs discussion
>>
>> I am not sure whether the test should be a positive or a negative test.
>> The description of the test says "xmlns prefix 'xmlzzz' (reserved)"
>> which suggests a negative test. In that case, I approve.
>>
>> (we should make that more clear in the test cases, maybe in the html
>> test...)
> 
> It's meant to be positive -
> http://rdfa.digitalbazaar.com/test-suite/xhtml-manifest.rdf says
> expectedResults is true.
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names/ says:
> 
>   "All other prefixes beginning with the three-letter sequence x, m, l,
> in any case combination, are reserved. This means that:
>    * users SHOULD NOT use them except as defined by later specifications
>    * processors MUST NOT treat them as fatal errors."
> 
> So the test case XML document is violating the 'should', but XML
> processors (and presumably RDFa processors) must treat it exactly like
> any other normal prefix.

Ah! True, you are right.

If we had some sort of a warning mechanism, a warning would therefore be
in order, but it is indeed not an error.

To be formal: yes, I approve the test.

Thanks Philip

Ivan

> 

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