- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:35:27 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>
- Cc: public-xml-id@w3.org
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Norman Walsh wrote: > > / Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu> was heard to say: > |> I think it follows from "The prefix xml is by definition bound to the > |> namespace name http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace." in the namespaces > |> recommendation. > | > | It's quite clear from the context of that statement that it's referring to > | bindings in XML documents. It has nothing to say about non-XML contexts such as > | XPath expressions and Java libraries. > > That's why I said "I think it follows from". I recognize that it's > underspecified at the moment. It isn't the case in, for instance, CSS. There, the "xml" prefix would have to be explicitly defined before being used. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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