Re: Names beginning with "xml"

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 3:14 PM, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:

> What do we do about the statement in XML 1.0 that names beginning wiht
> "xml" (in any case combination) are reserved for future standardization?
> So far, we only have xml:*, xmlns, and xmlns:* in the XML stack in
> element and attribute names and xml-style and xml-model PI targets.
> Change control for these resides with the W3C XML Core WG.  They have been
> very useful as an extension point: anyone who uses a name beginning with
> "xml" for private purposes deserves to lose and need not be worried about.
>
> Shall we put a similar remark into the MicroXML spec?
>

+1

I'll admit my biggest cause for bias: this restriction is essential to the
workings of Amara's generic, schema-free data binding system (bindery),
which is a system I expect to port to MicroXML.


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