- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:56:55 +0100
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Ian Hickson writes: > On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Henry S. Thompson wrote: >> Ian Hickson writes: >> >> > It isn't the case in, for instance, CSS. There, the "xml" prefix would >> > have to be explicitly defined before being used. >> >> That's a bug, in my opinion. I would very much like to see a built-in, >> exclusive in both directions, binding of 'xml' to >> 'http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace' written in to CSS 2.1. > > Well, 2.1 doesn't have namespaces, but in CSS3, I assume. Sure, sorry, just went for the first CSS I saw that wasn't a REC. >> That would bring it in to line with XML Namespaces 1.1 in a useful way. > > What's the use case? This seems like it would complicate the spec and the > implementations, as well as make full tutorials slightly more complicated, > without any real benefit to the end user. When would you ever use this > namespace in CSS? I have no idea -- if namespaces are useful in selectors, then I need this namespace if I ever want to select the attributes in the xml namespace. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh Half-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail really from me _always_ has this .sig -- mail without it is forged spam]
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