- From: Doug Orleans <dougorleans@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 18:46:33 -0400
- To: www-dom@w3.org
In DOM Level 3, the specification for Document.createElementNS says the following: http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/core.html#ID-DocCrElNS NAMESPACE_ERR: Raised if the qualifiedName is a malformed qualified name, if the qualifiedName has a prefix and the namespaceURI is null, or if the qualifiedName has a prefix that is "xml" and the namespaceURI is different from "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" [XML Namespaces], or if the qualifiedName or its prefix is "xmlns" and the namespaceURI is different from "http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/", or if the namespaceURI is "http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/" and neither the qualifiedName nor its prefix is "xmlns". I'm surprised by the restriction on an element whose qualifiedName is "xmlns". Is this a mistake in the spec? Perhaps the text was copied from createAttributeNS (where the restriction does make sense)? I think it should read something like the following: NAMESPACE_ERR: Raised if the qualifiedName is a malformed qualified name, if the qualifiedName has a prefix and the namespaceURI is null, if the qualifiedName has a prefix that is "xml" and the namespaceURI is different from "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" [XML Namespaces], if the qualifiedName has a prefix that is "xmlns" and the namespaceURI is different from "http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/", or if the namespaceURI is "http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/" and the qualifiedName has no prefix or has a prefix that is different from "xmlns". --Doug Orleans dougorleans@gmail.com
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