[closed] Re: XLink 1.1: default xmlns attribute values

/ Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> was heard to say:
| * Norman Walsh wrote:
|>|   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xlink11-20050707/ section 4.3 suggests
|>| to use default attribute values for xmlns:xlink, this is obviously an
|>| incorrect and dangerous suggestion, please remove suggestions to use
|>| default attribute values from this section or, preferably, remove the
|>| entire section since documents that make use of these suggestions are
|>| by definition not interoperable.
|>
|>The Core WG has considered this comment. We'll add a note to indicate
|>that providing such defaults in an external subset may mean that they
|>are not seen by browsers and other parsers that do not read the
|>external subset.
|
| How would this look like exactly? 

It looks like this:

  Note also that using the attribute value default technique to
  specify the XLink namespace declaration has no equivalent in [RELAX
  NG], [XML Schema Part 1: Structures], or other modern schema
  languages. While it can be used when DTD-informed parsing is
  performed, it poses an interoperability risk and should be used with
  care.

| It seems you will keep the section and
| the suggestion to use such defaulting but note that maybe that's a bad
| suggestion; wouldn't it be better to simply point out that this is a bad
| idea and is recommended against?

There are still users who rely on DTD validation and in such
environments, the technique is not without its value.

|>We will also add a note to indicate that the technique does not have
|>any analog in XSD, RELAX NG, or other modern infoset-based validation
|>languages.
|
| This is fine by me.

Thank you.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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