- From: Michael Champion <mcham@microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:18:52 -0800
- To: <www-tag@w3.org>
Sorry to go off-topic, but the "Significant W3C Confusion over Namespace Meaning and Policy" thread touched on how Microsoft's XML tools handle the XML namespace attributes. The comments in [1] and [2] refer to the situation in .NET 1.1 and future plans as of when Dare was in the WebData XML team. He indicated in his caveat that plans may have changed since then, and they have: the team has resolved the issues with xml:base and XBRL discusses, and the "Whidbey" release of .NET Framework will reflect this. Specifically, the default schema for the xml namespace in .NET 2.0 is a snapshot of http://www.w3.org/2001/xml.xsd. Users, however, can specify any schemaLocation including "http://www.w3.org/2001/xml.xsd" to get the current contents. We use the built-in snapshot only if no resolvable location was provided along with the import. The default schema includes xml:base, and we currently test the code with XBRL schemas. Support for xml:id semantics, of course, will not be added before there is a W3C Recommendation. Please follow up via http://blogs.msdn.com/xmlteam/contact.aspx since it is clearly off-topic for www-tag. If there is a demand I'll setup a blogs.msdn.com/xmlteam post at which we can have further public discussion of this. Michael Champion Program Manager - XML Standards, Microsoft WebData XML [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2005Feb/0125.html [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2005Feb/0128.html
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