Re: Namespaces and XML/XHTML (was Re: State and Status of WAI-ARIA approach to host-language embedding)

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Henri Sivonen writes:

> On Apr 18, 2008, at 11:17, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
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>> Henri Sivonen writes:
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>>>> Exactly -- having aria-role and aria:role as aliases is bad design.
>>> Having only aria-foo and not having aria:foo solves the problem.
>>
>> That proposal is not, as far as I know, on the table -- I would
>> certainly argue against it as fundamentally breaking XML design
>> principles.
>
> Actually, it is what is being implemented.

That's a bit odd, as it's not what's in the current ARIA public
Working Draft [1].

ht

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-wai-aria-20080204/#impl_namespace
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