Re: ACTION to draft the 'copy without namespaces' proposal

After seeing some email among Norm, Jirka, and myself, it
appears we are dropping the need to be able to specify the
removal of an attribute on top level included tags.

For me that leaves only the following suggestions for
changes to the November 26 version of
http://www.w3.org/XML/2012/08/xinclude-11/
and
http://www.w3.org/XML/2012/08/xinclude-11/diff.html


1.  In section 3.1, the description for "Any attributes
in the http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude/local-attributes
namespace" should be changed to read something like:

  These attributes are used for copying values into attributes
  that are not in a namespace

or

  These attributes are used for specifying values for attributes
  that are not in a namespace when doing attribute copying


2.  I still think we should consider adding an xila FIXED
attribute (for the local-attribute namespace) to the DTD fragment.
This doesn't imply a particular prefix for this namespace any
more than we imply the xi prefix, and without this declaration,
any use of the xila attribute would be invalid.  Readers
already need to realize the limitations of using a DTD
to define namespace-using markup, and having one of
the namespace attributes in the fragment and not the
other seems odd.  If we wish, we can add something like
the following to the end of the second bullet of 3 (where
we mention the local-attributes namespace):

  For convenience, within this specification, the prefix xila
  may be used when referring to elements within this namespace.

However, if anyone in the WG has a serious problem with this
suggestion, I'm willing to withdraw it.


paul

Received on Monday, 1 December 2014 16:25:55 UTC