RE: Names beginning with "xml"

From: Uche Ogbuji [mailto:uche@ogbuji.net]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 12:37 PM
To: public-microxml@w3.org
Subject: Re: Names beginning with "xml"

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:30 AM, David Lee <David.Lee@marklogic.com<mailto:David.Lee@marklogic.com>> wrote:
if attributes xml:* is allowed but reserved.
What is the data model for the QName of say  xml:abc    (ignore for now "abc" is not yet defined ... I want to avoid pulling in the other specs).

Localname = "abc" ?
Localname = "xml:abc" ?

The latter, though I should mention that none of the 4 options, A, B, C or A-prime, would have the concept of a local name. It's just a name, so:

name := "xml:abc"


To get close to achieving the new goal of some reasonable attempt at a data model compatibility, we need to define the relationship between uXML Names and XML(+NS) QNames
The simpliest in my mind is to ban colons and make  uXML Name == XML+NS  QName.Localname

Why is it so important to complicate the spec to allow xml:  in attributes if we assign no semantics to it ?
I know some "want to" "allow" "someone" to use say "use"  xml:id ... whatever that means if there is no semantics defined for it ,
but is this enough to complicate the spec for some future maybe want ?



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