- From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:10:00 +0100
- To: Dare Obasanjo <dareo@microsoft.com>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Dare Obasanjo wrote:
>>2. If your application requires validity, nothing breaks. You
>> can't use
>> xml:id attributes unless you put them in your schema and if you put
>> them in your schema, they'll work just like any other attributes.
>
>
> No, they won't. At least not if you are using MSXML or System.Xml in the
> .NET Framework. The same problem exists with xml:base today. In both
> libraries, the assumption we made was that the XML namespace would be
> unchanging.
Based on what grounds did you decide to make such a bold assumption?
> For this reason, we don't allow users to specify a schema
> for the XML namespace but instead always use an internal schema with a
> fixed list of attribute declarations {xml:lang, xml:space}.
Is there anything in the XML Schema spec that makes this behaviour
conformant?
No offense but I find it a touch excessive to make such unreasonable
assumptions and then call the W3C inconsistent because your software is
broken.
--
Robin Berjon
Research Scientist
Expway, http://expway.com/
Received on Wednesday, 16 February 2005 14:09:55 UTC