Re: xml:id versus xmlid

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Norman Walsh wrote:
>
> / 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.

It isn't the case in, for instance, CSS. There, the "xml" prefix would 
have to be explicitly defined before being used.

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