- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 07:36:23 -0400
- To: "Rushforth, Peter" <Peter.Rushforth@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca>
- Cc: "public-xmlhypermedia@w3.org" <public-xmlhypermedia@w3.org>
On Thu, 2012-08-02 at 10:30 +0000, Rushforth, Peter wrote: > Hi Liam, > > Actually, if you did this: > > <foo rel="ns" href="http://example.com/mynsresource" > type="application/namespaces+xml"> > <bar/> > </foo> If I did this where exactly? > and the /mynsresource was like this: > > <ns> > <attribute> > <name>href</name> > <uri>http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace</uri> > </attribute> > <attribute> > <name>src</name> > <uri>http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace</uri> > </attribute> > </ns> > > etc > > then you would never have to use the prefixed form in the instance > document, maybe, because you'd > recursively mapped the prefixed form to the unprefixed form, although > you could still use them if you really wanted because it is defined by > fiat in the xml spec. This sounds very like the Unobtrusive Namespaces proposal I had. You do need prefixes for attributes sometimes, or a way to mark them. Liam (preparing for Balisage so not much time this week) -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml
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