Response to comment on Namespaces in XML 1.1

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The wording in section 5.2 is poor.  Instead of saying "the default
namespace can be set to the empty string", it should say something
like "the value of the xmlns attribute can be the empty string".  The
point is that an empty xmlns value is just syntax for removing the
default namespace, rather than the empty string being interpreted as a
namespace name.  We will clarify it in the next draft of Namespaces 1.1.

Received on Tuesday, 22 April 2003 14:23:29 UTC