- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 00:53:47 -0500
- To: John Boyer <jboyer@PureEdge.com>
- CC: "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee3@torque.pothole.com>, xml-names-editor@w3.org, www-xml-infoset-comments@w3.org, XML DSig <w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org>
John Boyer wrote:
[...]
> This means if I put an HTML island in the middle of some XML by adding
> xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" to the html tag, then when I want
> the href of some anchor, I cannot simply say
> 'get("http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40", href)'. I must instead say
>
> 1) get("http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40", href)
> 2) if that fails, then get("", href)
I don't know why you're looking for a qualified form
of the href attribute. There just isn't one.
I could see:
get("http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml", "a", "href")
or
get("http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml", "link", "href")
But it seems that your get() method is called when you
already have an element in mind:
getElt("http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml", "a").getAttr("", "href")
or, in XPath syntax, with html: suitably bound:
html:a/@href
as opposed to
*/@html:href
which doesn't make much sense, since
there's no href attribute on the p element, for example.
It might make sense to look for qualified forms of
the so-called "global attributes":
get("http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml", "style")
or in XPath: */@html:style
but the XHTML namespace name isn't specified to
work that way (yet, at least).
> Once again... Yikes!
I think you've somehow latched on to the idea
that attributes need to be associated with
namespace names in order to make sense. They just
don't, any more than C structure field names
need to be globally qualified.
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Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
Received on Monday, 14 August 2000 01:54:00 UTC