- From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 16:29:00 +0100 (BST)
- To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>, Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Cc: xml-names-editor@w3.org
The XML Core WG has considered your comments on the assignment of the namespace name http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/ to the xmlns prefix. This assignment was made in Febraury 2000 following representations from the DOM WG. It was reflected in the XML Infoset Spec published in October 2001. So it is not a new decision, and its incorporation as an erratum in the Namespaces spec is just a recognition of a long-standing decision. We appreciate that this is not consistent with the way SAX identifies namespace attributes, and that SAX's behaviour is consistent with the unamended spec. However we do not believe that reversing a decision made in February 2000 would achieve anything except further confusion. We note that the Namespaces spec does not impose any conformance constraints on processors, and therefore this erratum should not be taken as implying in any way that SAX is not conformant. -- Richard Tobin, on behalf of the XML Core WG
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