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RE: PBC-01 Bad namespace prefix

From: Jonathan Marsh <jmarsh@microsoft.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 11:14:08 -0800
Message-ID: <7DA77BF2392448449D094BCEF67569A505875948@RED-MSG-30.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>
To: "Paul Cotton" <pcotton@microsoft.com>, <public-ws-media-types@w3.org>

Isn't this an XML-related specification? :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Cotton
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 11:02 AM
> To: public-ws-media-types@w3.org
> Subject: PBC-01 Bad namespace prefix
> 
> PBC-01 Bad namespace prefix
> 
> Referenced document:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xml-media-types-20041102/
> 
> Table 1. "Prefixes and Namespaces used in this specification" defines
the
> prefix "xmlmime" for the namespace URI
> "http://www.w3.org/2004/11/xmlmime".  This is an invalid namespace
prefix
> since a namespace prefix is not allowed to start with the reserved
string
> "xml".  See [1]:
> 
> ===
> Namespace Constraint: Leading "XML"
> Prefixes beginning with the three-letter sequence x, m, l, in any case
> combination, are reserved for use by XML and XML-related
specifications.
> ===
> 
> /paulc
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#xmlReserved
> 
> Paul Cotton, Microsoft Canada
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> 
> 
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