RE: SD5 - Namespaces - New Version 2

Fair question.

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We can get some integration of concepts across various doctypes by
sharing attributes.

--Andrew Layman
   AndrewL@microsoft.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Paul Grosso [SMTP:paul@arbortext.com]
> Sent:	Friday, May 23, 1997 4:26 PM
> To:	w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
> Subject:	RE: SD5 - Namespaces - New Version 2
> 
> At 15:39 1997 05 23 -0400, Arjun Ray wrote:
> >
> >Sorry, my fault for overloading "qualify". Assuming ':' is the name
> >component separator, I was basically asking about a construction like
> >
> >   ... <X:FOO Y:BAR="baz"> ...
> >
> >where within the same start-tag, an attribute is drawn from some
> other
> >namespace than the element. Is this kosher?
> >
> 
> I don't think you'd want to allow this, and I'm not even sure it makes
> sense:  by definition of what it means to be an attribute (even in
> the natural language sense), how can "an attribute of some element in
> the Y namespace" be an attribute of "the FOO element in the X
> namespace"?
> 
> Actually, please just consider that a rhetorical question (we don't
> need
> the extra email philosophizing on this concept).  Just explain the
> user
> requirement this could possibly address if any.
> 
> paul

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