- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 23:35:31 -0800
- To: malachi@tremerechantry.com
- Cc: xml-names-editor@w3.org
Malachi de AElfweald wrote: > I am confused. No such thing as a null namespace? But the document > (that lists you as Editor) says " The namespace name for an unprefixed > attribute name is always null. " Hmm... I'm not actually in the editing loop on this version, but I agree that that language is a bit confusing. The namespaces rec describes a condition called "being in a namespace" and gives methods for putting elements and attributes in namespaces. The only way for an attribute to be in any namespace at all is for it to have a prefix. No prefix, no namespace. I'm not sure what they mean by "null namespace" but now I'll review the language and perhaps comment. > > Regarding the xhtml part... are you saying that the only way to make it > "correct" > would be <a xhtml:href="http://blah">link</a> ??? Cuz, that isn't what > any of the > examples show. No, in fact, in XHTML, the "a" element is in the xhtml namespace, but its href attribute isn't in any namespace. So <xhtml:a href="foo"> is perfectly correct. -Tim
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