Re: xml:* attributes

On Fri, 2012-08-17 at 13:14 +0700, James Clark wrote:
> After giving this a lot of thought, my preference is for A (no colons
> in attribute names anywhere).
+1

I especially like the historical baggage argument.

Disallowing xml:lang and xml:space means there may be more pressure to
come up with something like architectural forms. Which may not be a bad
thing.

"less ugly (more beautiful would be going too far)" is also
memorable :-)

Liam

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