- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 13:28:38 +0200
- To: "Houghton,Andrew" <houghtoa@oclc.org>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
* Houghton,Andrew wrote: >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..." Yes, but this does not mean that you have to specify the attribute. >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. Request for clarification via <xml-editor@w3.org>.
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