[DRAFT] XML Core WG review of CSS Namespaces draft of 2006-08-28

This is [the first draft of] the XML Core WG's review of the 2006-08-28
draft of the CSS Namespaces module.  We have two relatively small concerns
and one serious one.

1) At the point in 3.3 where namespace prefixes are said to be
case-insensitive, we'd like it pointed out (a) why this is so and (b)
that it is not actually a problem with XML documents, whose prefixes
*are* case-sensitive.

2) Since this module is about namespaces, we believe it should make
a normative, rather than an informative, reference to Namespaces 1.0
and Namespaces 1.1.  Both are needed to handle both XML 1.0 and XML 1.1
documents.  In addition, the references should be to the undated (latest)
versions of these documents rather than to specific dated editions.

3) The last paragraph of 3.1 is very unclear.  We believe it is essential,
and a consequence of XML Namespaces 1.x, that namespace names must never
be normalized in any way.  The reference to string syntax vs. url()
syntax is unclear to us: whichever syntax is permitted, no normalization
should be done.  We consider this a point that must be clarified in the
next draft.

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But that, he realized, was a foolish            John Cowan
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that the Wall had no other side.                http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
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