RE: Some possible MicroXML design goals

I see that XML names allow colons.  This would seem to imply that xml:
is not a namespace.  Interesting.  Sorry for the noise, maybe Len was right.

XLink is still not appropriate for the web :-).

Peter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Clark [mailto:jjc@jclark.com] 
> Sent: July 24, 2012 10:09
> To: Rushforth, Peter
> Cc: public-microxml@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Some possible MicroXML design goals
> 
> Subset of XML 1.0. XML Namespaces is a separate spec.
> 
> On Jul 24, 2012, at 9:06 PM, "Rushforth, Peter"
> <Peter.Rushforth@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca> wrote:
> 
> > Then cut and paste from micro xml into xml tools won't work because 
> > the namespaces prefixes will not be declared?  That's not a 
> subset of XML, right?
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: James Clark [mailto:jjc@jclark.com]
> >> Sent: July 24, 2012 09:58
> >> To: Rushforth, Peter
> >> Cc: public-microxml@w3.org
> >> Subject: Re: Some possible MicroXML design goals
> >>
> >> On Jul 24, 2012, at 8:48 PM, "Rushforth, Peter"
> >> <Peter.Rushforth@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> This isn't quite right. MicroXML would still need to allow
> >> at least
> >>>> some prefixes on attributes (xml:, xlink: and xmlns:) so 
> as to be 
> >>>> able to represent the namespaced attributes that occur 
> in the HTML 
> >>>> syntax of HTML5.
> >>>
> >>> Why would you want to include xlink in MicroXML?
> >>
> >> I want to be able to represent any HTML5 document in MicroXML, and
> >> HTML5 allows certain prefixed attribute names include 
> certain names 
> >> starting with "xlink:". IIRC this is because SVG uses 
> XLink.  This is 
> >> not quite the same as including xlink.
> >>
> >>> It is not fit for the
> >>> web, and will drag in namespaces with it.
> >>
> >> Not quite. HTML5 doesn't care about namespace declarations.
> >> In HTML5, the "xlink:" prefix is built-in just like the "xml:" one 
> >> is.  All it drags in is the requirement to allow attribute 
> names to 
> >> have a colon in them.
> >>
> >> James
>

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