[Bug 25098] New: Clarifications on "legacy reasons" for namespace URI

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25098

            Bug ID: 25098
           Summary: Clarifications on "legacy reasons" for namespace URI
           Product: WebAppsWG
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: major
          Priority: P2
         Component: DOM
          Assignee: annevk@annevk.nl
          Reporter: sebp.muell.er@gmail.com
        QA Contact: public-webapps-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, www-dom@w3.org

In the DOM 4 Spec it says here:

http://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#interface-attr

[[
For legacy reasons, attributes also have an associated name, namespace, and
namespace prefix.
]]


I understand that "name" and maybe even "namespace prefix" exist for legacy
reasons and might not need to be there if not for backwards compatibility.

However I do not understand why "namespace" - (the URI) is mentioned in this
sentence, unless you do not want to support namespaced attributes anymore. 

Without the namespace property I don't see any way of iterating over all
attributes of an element and finding out which namespace they belong to.

Please clarify whether "namespaces" will not be supported anymore other than
for legacy reasons (which would mean that a number of XML documents (e.g. most
SVG documents) could not be parsed anymore), or that only the "name" property
is there for legacy reasons, because it can be deduced from the other
properties.

My suggested alternative wording would be:

"Attributes can have an associated namespace and namespace prefix. For legacy
reasons they also have an associated name."

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Received on Wednesday, 19 March 2014 14:20:34 UTC