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Re: xml:id versus xmlid

From: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:29:58 -0400
To: public-xml-id@w3.org
Message-id: <87mzrlr1xl.fsf@nwalsh.com>
/ Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu> was heard to say:
|> I think it follows from "The prefix xml is by definition bound to the
|> namespace name http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace." in the namespaces
|> recommendation.
|
| It's quite clear from the context of that statement that it's referring to
| bindings in XML documents. It has nothing to say about non-XML contexts such as
| XPath expressions and Java libraries.

That's why I said "I think it follows from". I recognize that it's 
underspecified at the moment.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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