Re: Namespace prefixes for attributes

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elliotte Rusty Harold" <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
To: <www-smil@w3.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 8:23 PM
Subject: [Moderator Action] Namespace prefixes for attributes


> I'm still making my way through the SMIL 2.0 DTDs so I may be a little
> off-base here, but I do think I've noticed something strange.
> 
> If the %SMIL.pfx; entity is defined as a non-empty string, and prefixing
> is turned on, then the attributes have names like smil:transIn and
> smil:transOut. If %SMIL.pfx; is defined as the empty string, then the
> attributes have names like transIn and transOut. (The specific attribute
> used is not important here.) This is what's intended, I think.
> 
> However what I suspect is unintentional is that for attributes, unlike
> for elements, this changes what namespace the attributes are in.
> Unprefixed attributes are never in any namespace, whether the default
> namespace or the namespace of the element they belong to. So adding the
> prefix here moves the attributes from no namespace at all to the
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-smil/2000/SMIL20 namespace (or whatever URI has
> been defined). That seems to me to be unexpected and unnecessary
> behavior. 
> 
> Since these attributes are always placed on SMIL elements only, wouldn't
> it be more consistent if they never had any prefixes at all and were
> always in no namespace? 
> 
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