Re: FPWD Review Request: HTML+RDFa

On Sep 3, 2009, at 15:06, Anne van Kesteren wrote:

> Treating xmlns as any other attribute seems like a violation of the  
> architecture of Namespaces in XML to me. I.e. a layering violation.


Indeed, namespace declarations in XML don't appear in the [attributes]  
property of an element information item in the Infoset. They appear in  
the [namespace attributes] property and also affect the [in-scope  
namespaces] property.

See http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset/#infoitem.element

It's highly unusual at the W3C to layer a spec (other than Namespaces  
itself of course) directly on top of XML 1.0 instead of layering it on  
top of XML + Namespaces (or the Infoset).

-- 
Henri Sivonen
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http://hsivonen.iki.fi/

Received on Thursday, 3 September 2009 13:32:15 UTC