- From: Paul Grosso <paul@arbortext.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 18:25:33 -0500
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 15:39 1997 05 23 -0400, Arjun Ray wrote: > >Sorry, my fault for overloading "qualify". Assuming ':' is the name >component separator, I was basically asking about a construction like > > ... <X:FOO Y:BAR="baz"> ... > >where within the same start-tag, an attribute is drawn from some other >namespace than the element. Is this kosher? > I don't think you'd want to allow this, and I'm not even sure it makes sense: by definition of what it means to be an attribute (even in the natural language sense), how can "an attribute of some element in the Y namespace" be an attribute of "the FOO element in the X namespace"? Actually, please just consider that a rhetorical question (we don't need the extra email philosophizing on this concept). Just explain the user requirement this could possibly address if any. paul
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