- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 16:20:34 +0100
- To: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>
- Cc: public-xml-id@w3.org
* Norman Walsh wrote:
>FWIW, I don't. There's a precedent for using xml: (xml:base, xml:lang,
>xml:space). There's no precedent (that I can think of) for taking advantage
>of the fact that XML reserves names beginning xml (except maybe
>xml-stylesheet).
xmlns.
>Except user expectations. I think users would find the unqualified
>attribute name "xmlid" more confusing than "xml:id".
Well, lots of authors consider
x.setAttributeNS("http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace", "id", ...)
more difficult than
x.setAttributeNS(null, "xmlid", ...)
or
x.setAttribute("xmlid", ...)
Evidence can easily be found on any forum that involves namespace
discussions.
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