- From: Houghton,Andrew <houghtoa@oclc.org>
- Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 07:22:49 -0400
- To: "'Nick Kew'" <nick@webthing.com>
- Cc: "'Bjoern Hoehrmann'" <derhoermi@gmx.net>, "'www-validator@w3.org'" <www-validator@w3.org>
Thursday, July 31, 2003 6:24 PM, Nick Kew wrote: > > Thus, the DCMI Web pages essentially use the "nil" namespace rather than > > the default xmlns= namespace. > > Nope. The xmlns attribute is declared #FIXED in the DTD, so it's there > in any XHTML document using an XHTML 1.0 DTD even if you can't see it. I disagree, according to what I read in "Namespace for XML" which specifically points to the XML specification's attribute section, it says in "3.3.2 Attribute Defaults": "...; the #FIXED keyword states that the attribute must always have the default value..." So I read that as meaning that when you use #FIXED in an attribute declaration, then you *must* place the attribute in your document *and* that attribute *must* contain the same value as defined in the attribute declaration. Thus, the documents in question fail that test since they omit the attribute and is why, I believe, that the XHTML 1.0 specification explicitly says in 3.1.1 (3) says it *must* be declared. Andy.
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