FW: Namespaces in XML 1.0 (Third Edition) is a W3C Recommendation

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From: w3c-ac-forum-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-ac-forum-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Ian Jacobs
Sent: Tuesday, 2009 December 08 16:28
To: W3C Members
Subject: Namespaces in XML 1.0 (Third Edition) is a W3C Recommendation

Dear Advisory Committee Representative,

It is my pleasure to announce that Namespaces in XML 1.0 (Third  
Edition) has been published as a W3C Recommendation, superseding the  
Second Edition:

   Namespaces in XML 1.0 (Third Edition)
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-xml-names-20091208/

All Members who responded to the Call for Review [1] of the Proposed  
Edited Recommendations supported the publication of this specification  
as a W3C Recommendation.

This edition includes no substantive changes, but among the  
accumulated errata which it incorporates is one of particular  
importance, which removes an incompatibility with the Fifth Edition of  
the XML 1.0 specification [2] itself.

W3C would like to thank the XML Core Working Group [3] for their  
efforts to ensure the continuing utility of XML.

For Philippe Le Hégaret, on behalf of Tim Berners-Lee, Director;
Ian Jacobs, Head of W3C Communications

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2009JulSep/0017.html
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xml-20081126/
[3] http://www.w3.org/XML/Core/

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Disposition of Comments
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Several minor editorial improvements were made to the Proposed Edited  
Recommendation as a result of suggestions received from outside the  
W3C during the review period, A complete record of the comments  
received and their disposition is available [4].

One request for a change was not agreed to by the Working Group, and  
as the person making the request was not satisfied with the reasons  
given by the Working Group for their decision, the issue was  
considered carefully at the Transition review.

The request was to change the presentation of one piece of normative  
prose, which requires namespace names to be URI references, from a  
simple statement to that effect in the body of the document, to an  
explicitly called-out Namespace Constraint.

At the Transition review the Working Group's decision not to act now  
on this request was upheld, even though it might appear to be a simple  
editorial change, for two reasons:

   1) Unlike all the existing Namespace Constraints, the proposed new
      one would apply only to documents, not to processors, and so a
      new class of Constraint would be required or the potential for
      confusion would be increased, rather than, as the original
      request intended, decreased;

   2) There are other normative conformance statements in the document
      which are not presented as Namespace Constraints: there is a
      risk that making the proposed change without also changing all
      of them would leave their status unclear.  In this context it
      should be noted that the prose in question has been present in
      the specification from its First Edition.

The Working Group has agreed to raise an issue [5] on the question of  
this request in particular, and the matter of normative statements  
outside Namespace Constraints in general.

[4] http://www.w3.org/XML/Group/2009/10/disposition.html [Member-only]
[5] http://www.w3.org/XML/Group/2001/05/proposed-xml-names-errata#NPE33

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Namespaces in XML 1.0 (Third Edition)
W3C Recommendation 8 December 2009
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This version:
     http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-xml-names-20091208/
Latest version:
     http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names/
Previous versions:
     http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-names-20060816/
     http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PER-xml-names-20090806/
Editors:
     Tim Bray, Textuality <tbray@textuality.com>
     Dave Hollander, Contivo, Inc. <dmh@contivo.com>
     Andrew Layman, Microsoft <andrewl@microsoft.com>
     Richard Tobin, University of Edinburgh and Markup Technology Ltd
                     <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk>
     Henry S. Thompson, University of Edinburgh and W3C <ht@w3.org> -
                                                        Third Edition
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Abstract
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XML namespaces provide a simple method for qualifying element and
attribute names used in Extensible Markup Language documents by
associating them with namespaces identified by URI references.

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Status of this Document (minus boilerplate)
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This document is a product of the XML Core Working Group as part of
the W3C XML Activity. The English version of this specification is
the only normative version. However, for translations of this
document, see
http://www.w3.org/2003/03/Translations/byTechnology?technology=xml-names

Known implementations are documented in the Namespaces 1.1
implementation report (all known Namespaces 1.1 implementations also
support Namespaces 1.0) . A test suite is also available via the XML
Test Suite page.

This third edition incorporates all known errata as of the publication
date. It supersedes the previous edition of 16 August 2006.

This edition has been widely reviewed. Only minor editorial changes
have been made since the 6 August 2009 Proposed Edited Recommendation.

Please report errors in this document to xml-names-editor@w3.org;
public archives are available. The errata list for this document is
available at http://www.w3.org/XML/2009/xml-names-errata .

This document has been reviewed by W3C Members, by software
developers, and by other W3C groups and interested parties, and is
endorsed by the Director as a W3C Recommendation. It is a stable
document and may be used as reference material or cited from another
document. W3C's role in making the Recommendation is to draw attention
to the specification and to promote its widespread deployment. This
enhances the functionality and interoperability of the Web.

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