- From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
- Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 03:55:12 +0200
- To: Matthew Raymond <mattraymond@earthlink.net>
- Cc: public-appformats@w3.org
On Aug 08, 2006, at 22:52, Matthew Raymond wrote:
> Please explain where the dual use of |xml:id| and |id| is
> undesirable.
Because instead of specifying the attribute once and have it work
with all use cases you now have to specify it twice.
> Out of curiosity, why can't namespaces simply inherit attributes
> from
> the "xml" namespace? That way I could use this...
>
> | <[ns:]element id="..." lang="..." base="..." />
>
> ...instead of this:
>
> | <[ns:]element xml:id="..." xml:lang="..." xml:base="..." />
Assuming this didn't imply a host of other problems (which
unfortunately it does), it would still require going back in time to
1998 and changing millions of implementations already matching
current specifications, which wouldn't be very convenient to say the
least.
--
Robin Berjon
Senior Research Scientist
Expway, http://expway.com/
Received on Wednesday, 9 August 2006 01:55:17 UTC