- From: Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>
- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 16:10:00 +0100
- To: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
Robin Berjon wrote:
> "The namespace name for an unprefixed attribute name always has no value."
Where exactly is that stated in http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/ ? I
searched for it in both the XML and Namespaces in XML documents, but did
not find it. That is why people specify sources when they quote.
Right, Google says it's from the Namespaces in XML 1.1 document at
http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names11/... (which is strangely enough not
linked to from XML 1.0 nor XML 1.1).
All I needed was an actual quote from the spec, not Latin, thank you.
Anyways, wasn't there some kind of ban on XML 1.1 because it introduced
all kinds of incompatibilities with XML 1.0? Is quoting from that spec a
good idea?
Actually, I read the following sentence in the Errata for the Namespaces
in XML 1.0 document:
"Namespace Scoping
Change the first paragraph of section 5.1 to read:
A namespace declaration is considered to apply to the element where
it is specified and its attributes, and to all elements and their
attributes within the content of that element, unless overridden by
another namespace declaration with the same NSAttName part."
... note in particular the use of 'and its attributes'.
So it seems that's not just all there is to it.
~Grauw
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Received on Wednesday, 15 December 2004 15:10:02 UTC