- From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 09:15:06 -0700
- To: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Cc: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>, xml-names-editor@w3.org
Richard Tobin wrote: > 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. Albeit one that wasn't publicised until well after February 2000, leaving it almost completely unrecognized until the next year ... so that this backwards-incompatible revision to the specification was never subject to the defined W3C review processes. I can understand that the W3C doesn't want to reopen such issues, acknowledging cases where it hasn't followed its procedures. - David Brownell > 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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