- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 20:39:12 -0700
- To: db@argon.Eng.Sun.COM (David Brownell), xml-names-issues@w3.org
At 04:40 PM 8/16/98 -0700, David Brownell wrote: > - Definition says the declaration is done with an ATTRIBUTE whose > (name has a) prefix (that) is "xmlns". > > - Production 1 says the other side of the "Eq" is a SystemLiteral > > - But attributes have an "AttValue", allowing entity references Yes, fixed. >2. Careful reading of this text draws the conclusion, which I hope > is a bug, that namespace declarations may not be placed in DTDs. I just reviewed the grammar, and don't see how we have a problem. The DefaultDecl contains an AttValue, so what's wrong? >3. There's no text discussing the URI strings which are the values > associated with the various "xmlns" attributes. A complete URI > PROPOSED FIX: State that the URIs must be US-ASCII strings, with > no fragment identifier or characters disallowed by URI syntax. No way. We ain't gonna get into what can be inside a URI. >4. [NS 10] is called EmptyElement, so it's got a different name than > [XML 44] EmptyElementTag. Seems likely to be an editing mistake. > Yep, fixed. Actually, it's EmptyElemTag -Tim
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