- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 13:39:39 -0700
- To: www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org
I know it's past last call, but I just noticed this and it's a pretty serious issue. I hope you've already thought about it but just in case you haven't: What happens when XPointers with xmlns parts are used in namesapce well-formed XML documents? In particular how does the namesapce declaration in an XPointer using xmlns interact with the namespace declarations defined by xmlns and xmlns:prefix attributes in the XML document? What if they conflict? Which one wins? The current draft seems to implicitly say in section 5.2.1 that xmlns attributes are completely irrelavant; that only xmlns parts can be used to binds URIs for prefixes found in an XPointer. This seems wrong to me, but perhaps its consistent. At the least, I'd like to see more explicit discussion of the meaning of xmlns attributes with respect to XPointers in the final draft, even if the semantics and syntax remain as they currently are. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Java I/O (O'Reilly & Associates, 1999) | | http://metalab.unc.edu/javafaq/books/javaio/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1565924851/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://metalab.unc.edu/javafaq/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://metalab.unc.edu/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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