- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 09:51:52 -0700
- To: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, xml-editor@w3.org
- Cc: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
At 05:09 PM 5/31/99 +0100, Richard Tobin wrote: >The Namespaces recommendation defines the "xml" prefix as being bound >to http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. This suggests that it should >be possible to refer to the attributes xml:space and xml:lang by means >of other prefixes bound to that URL. The inferred suggestion is reasonable but wrong. In XML 1.0, published in Feb. 1998, it is clear that the reserved attributes are xm:lang and xml:space. Until XML 1.0 is rewritten and integrated with the namespace spec, xml:lang and xml:space are the only correct attributes to use for this purpose. -Tim
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