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Re: [xml-names11] Question about "7 Conformance of Documents"

From: Richard Tobin <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:37:31 +0000 (GMT)
To: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>, xml-names-editor@w3.org
Message-Id: <20050323103731.BD46527D6AC@macintosh.inf.ed.ac.uk>

> # No attributes with a declared type of ID, IDREF(S), ENTITY(IES), or
> # NOTATION contain any colons.
> 
> Applied to the local name or qualified name? (The XHTML+Voice profile 
> introduces a namespace based ID attribute and so does the xml:id 
> specification.)

This applies to the value of the attribute, not its name.

So myns:id="foo" is fine, but id="myns:foo" is not.

-- Richard
Received on Wednesday, 23 March 2005 10:37:35 GMT

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