- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 06:19:38 -0500
- To: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com
- CC: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>, public-xml-id@w3.org, www-tag@w3.org
noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com wrote: > Just curious: am I right in guessing that the decision to reserve the > unqualified names may in part be a reflection of the fact that there were > no qualified names at the time the XML Rec was published? There is the > statement in the original recommendation [1] that: Even if Namespaces in XML had been stable and integrated into XML 1.0, I suspect all names beginning with the three letters X, M, and L would still have been reserved. Remember, "No entity names, PI targets, or notation names contain any colons." xml-stylesheet is an obvious example of a processing instruction that takes advantage of the reserved nature of names beginning with xml, yet does not use a prefix. Furthermore, the spec that defines xml-stylesheet postdates Namespaces in XML by about half a year. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim
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