Re: Glitch in test case RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised)

Thank you! You are, not surprisingly, right. At least according to  
this technical note:

> http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-sgml-xml-971215
> XML predefines the semantics of the attributes xml:space and  
> xml:lang. It also reserves all attribute, element type and notation  
> names beginning with [Xx][Mm][Ll].
>


On Aug 3, 2007, at 2:00 AM, Dave Beckett wrote:

> Gary King wrote:
>> The test case unrecognised-xml-attributes//test002.rdf currently  
>> reads:
>>
>>> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>>> <!--
>>>   Copyright World Wide Web Consortium, (Massachusetts Institute of
>>>   Technology, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en
>>>   Automatique, Keio University).
>>>   All Rights Reserved.
>>>   Please see the full Copyright clause at
>>>   <http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software.html>
>>>
>>>   Description: Test case for the proposal:
>>>     Unrecognized attributes in the xml namespace should be ignored.
>>>
>>>   in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2002Jan/ 
>>> 0152.html
>>>
>>>   Although here it is not testing something in the xml namespace;  
>>> but
>>>   showing that an attribute that XML reserves is ignored.
>>>
>>>   Related issue:
>>>
>>>     NONE
>>>
>>>   $Id: test002.rdf,v 1.1 2007/03/23 16:03:53 gwking Exp $
>>> -->
>>> <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
>>>          xmlns:ex="http://example.org/schema#">
>>>   <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://example.org/thing">
>>>     <ex:prop1 xmlnewthing="anything">stuff</ex:prop1>
>>>   </rdf:Description>
>>> </rdf:RDF>
>>>
>>
>> I believe that the third to the last line should read
>>
>>>>     <ex:prop1 xml:newthing="anything">stuff</ex:prop1>
>>                                     ^
>>
>> I.e., replace xmlnewthing with xml:newthing.
>
> As I understand it, the XML Specification reserves any attribute
> beginning with the letters 'x' 'm' and 'l'.  So the example is
> correct that xmlnewthing is an unrecognised XML attribute.
>
> It does not have to look like a namespace attribute 'xml:NAME'.
>
> Dave

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