- From: Simon <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: 27 Jun 2001 17:09:11 -0400
- To: Sean "B." Palmer <sean@mysterylights.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On 27 Jun 2001 21:43:52 +0100, Sean B. Palmer wrote: > > > N.B. QNames in attributes are used, for example, in > > > XML Schema. > > > > Yikes! Is that an example you _really_ want to follow? > > Of course. QNames in attributes are easily definable in any > application of XML that uses XML Schema datatypes, so this is > something that CSS should look out for. Using QNames in attribute > values is very useful where you want to create a decentralized > classing mechanism. > > Bottom line: they're useful, they're validatable, and they're being > used... and yet CSS doesn't currently provide a selection mechansism > for them. I see this as more of an errata point than anything that > requires lengthy discussion. And if really believe that even most XML Schema-aware parsers that returns a post-schema-validation-infoset (PSVI), including all the information needed to process QNames, today, I've got a nice bridge in Brooklyn... only slightly used. http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1282 Yeesh. What a catastrophe. Namespaces still confound us, and now we've got W3C XML Schema piling yet more confusion on.
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