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Re: [OT] [CSS21] xml namespace (was Re: xml:id versus xmlid)

From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:21:31 -0400
Message-ID: <426E789B.8030602@metalab.unc.edu>
To: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
CC: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, www-style@w3.org, Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>, public-xml-id@w3.org 

Robin Berjon wrote:

>  - the 'http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace' namespace IRI cannot be
>    mapped to any prefix other than 'xml'; and

That's a 1.1 rule. It does not appear to be a 1.0 rule. Namespaces in 
XML 1.1 only applies to XML 1.1 documents, not XML 1.0 documents.

I certainly agree that it's a bad idea to map it to something else, but 
it may be one of those corner cases parsers and other libraries should 
handle nonetheless.

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