FW: [css3-namespace] XML Core WG's review

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Boris Zbarsky [mailto:bzbarsky@mit.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, 2006 September 06 23:01
To: Karl Dubost
Cc: Grosso, Paul; www-style@w3.org
Subject: Re: [css3-namespace] XML Core WG's review

Karl Dubost wrote:
> Hi Paul,

> (b) that even though XML documents have case-sensitive prefixes, there
is no 
> conflict, because the prefixes in the CSS need not be identical with 
> those in the XML.
...

> There is no conflict with XML Namespace indeed, but the case
insentivity 
> seems to make it impossible to style element with two similar prefix
and 
> different case.

That's not true, due to point (b) in Paul's mail.

> See rationale and example in
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2006Sep/0033

That example makes the incorrect assumption that CSS and XML prefixes
need to be 
identical.  They do not; only the namespaces need to match.

-Boris

Received on Thursday, 7 September 2006 13:58:36 UTC