- From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 17:27:50 +0100 (BST)
- To: Joe English <jenglish@flightlab.com>, Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@sun.com>
- Cc: xml-names-editor@w3.org, w3c-xml-core-wg@w3.org
> I'm afraid this misses the point. Undeclaring an unused > namespace prefix *cannot* change the interpretation of any > element names, attribute names, or QNames in content. > Since undeclaring a namespace prefix which *is* used > would cause an error, there is no compelling reason > to support this feature. A minor point: undeclaring namespaces which should not be in scope causes the use of supposed-to-be-unbound prefixes to correctly produce an error, when otherwise they might be incorrectly accepted. -- Richard
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