[Bug 4475] Namespace declarations treated as attributes

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4475





------- Comment #1 from ot@w3.org  2007-04-19 13:34 -------
(In reply to comment #0)
> Namespaces in XML adds namespace declarations to XML. DTD-based validators,
> such as the SGML validator used here, incorrectly treat namespace declaration
> as attributes and report validity errors. 

I agree that there is a problem (and I've been talking to a few people about
the goal of making the validator more aware of namespaces), but we both know
that the real issue is that the XML spec is not putting a constraint on
validating user agents to be namespaces aware, right?

Received on Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:34:48 UTC