Re: in-scope namespaces & inline documents

On 3/14/07, Alessandro Vernet <avernet@orbeon.com> wrote:
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> On 3/14/07, Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> > That's a form of serialisation.  Not our problem.  Maybe a Note to the
> > effect that serialisation may have to do namespace (and baseURI)
> > fixup.
>
> Are you saying that you are fine leaving this to the implementation
> and having the example Alex gave in the first message of this thread
> run fine on some implementations but fail with the error "namespace
> for prefix 'm' is not declared"?
>
> I would rather see this made explicit, one way or another, in the
> specification.



I agree.   I think should say that namespace declarations fixup happens
such that the in-scope namespaces and the document element's
namespace attributes match for inline documents.


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