Re: Change namespace of xml:id

* Norman Walsh wrote:
>FWIW, I don't. There's a precedent for using xml: (xml:base, xml:lang,
>xml:space). There's no precedent (that I can think of) for taking advantage
>of the fact that XML reserves names beginning xml (except maybe
>xml-stylesheet).

xmlns.

>Except user expectations. I think users would find the unqualified
>attribute name "xmlid" more confusing than "xml:id".

Well, lots of authors consider

  x.setAttributeNS("http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace", "id", ...)

more difficult than

  x.setAttributeNS(null, "xmlid", ...)

or

  x.setAttribute("xmlid", ...)

Evidence can easily be found on any forum that involves namespace
discussions.
-- 
Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de
Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de
68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/