Re: Change namespace of xml:id

/ Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> was heard to say:
| * 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.

Fair point.

|>Except user expectations. I think users would find the unqualified
|>attribute name "xmlid" more confusing than "xml:id".
|
| Well, lots of authors consider
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|   x.setAttributeNS("http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace", "id", ...)
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| more difficult than
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|   x.setAttributeNS(null, "xmlid", ...)
|
| or
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|   x.setAttribute("xmlid", ...)


Authors don't write any of those, programmers do.

|
| Evidence can easily be found on any forum that involves namespace
| discussions.

Yes, there's such wide controversy about namespaces that there's
probably evidence for any position in there somewhere.

I can see the arguments in favor of xmlid, but I still prefer xml:id.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM / XML Standards Architect / Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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