[Bug 8990] Attributes starting with xmlns: are conforming even if illegal per Namespaces in XML

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8990


Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|ASSIGNED                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED




--- Comment #2 from Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>  2010-05-05 02:45:17 ---
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Status: Fixed

Change Description: 

Added the following text:

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/rdfa/drafts/ED-rdfa-in-html-20100504/Overview.html.diff?r1=1.6&r2=1.7&f=h

"""
All attributes starting with a case insensitive prefix matching "xmlns:" must
conform to the production rules outlined in Namespaces in XML [XML-NAMES11],
Section 3: Declaring Namespaces. Documents that contain xmlns: attributes that
do not conform to Namespaces in XML must not be accepted as conforming.
"""

Rationale:

All xmlns: values must follow Namespaces in XML to be considered conforming.

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