- From: Paul Mitchell <paul@paul-mitchell.me.uk>
- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:47:35 +0000
- To: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Laurens Holst wrote: > Paul Mitchell schreef: > Thus, the ‘xml:’ prefix is referred to as ‘the XML namespace’. Adding > attributes to that has the advantage that it applies to all XML > documents, is part of the base standard, and that the namespace > doesn’t have to be declared. > > Examples are the ‘xml:lang’, ‘xml:base’, ‘xml:id’ and ‘xmlns’ > attributes. However, for something to be added to the XML namespace, > it must be very generic and apply to almost all or at least a lot of > documents. Like, most document types have IDs, most XML files are > language-dependant, and all documents can be given a different base URI. Thank you Laurens, that explains a lot. I'm aware of the efforts to standardise the core attributes, but didn't automatically associate "the XML namespace" with that. -- Paul Mitchell www.paul-mitchell.me.uk
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