- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:06:22 -0400
- To: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Cc: public-microxml@w3.org
James Clark scripsit:
> - documents MUST NOT use an attribute name "xmlns" , assuming we
> go for a no prefixes in names options; this would not be strictly
> required by the no-prefix decision, but if we go for no prefixes, and
> things it's best to exclude XML Namespaces entirely
>
> - documents SHOULD NOT use element/attribute names starting with xml
> (modulo whatever we decide on the "xml:" prefix)
>
> - processors MUST accept element/attribute names starting with xml,
> other than an "xmlns" attribute
+1 on all points.
> For PIs, reserving names starting with "xml" without describing their
> semantics would violate self-containedness. I suggest we deal with
> this as part of the discussion of whether to include PIs.
As I noted, I don't think so: we can just reserve all such names. Note
tht the targets "xml", "XML", etc. *must* be reserved for XML 1.0
compatibility.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
Would your name perchance be surname Puppet, given name Sock?
--Rick Moen
Received on Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:06:47 UTC