Re: schemaLocation

Oops... I was wrong about it then. Sorry.


On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:42:50 -0400, noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com said:
> No, they are not.  I suggest that when making assertions like this you 
> check the pertinent specifications first, as that holds down the spread
> of 
> misinformation.  What you're thinking of is the fact that element and 
> attribute names beginning with xml are reserved in the XML Recommendation 
> [1].  That's true.  What you're claiming is that local parts of qualified 
> names are also reserved.  That's not true.  From [2]:
> 
> ---------
> Namespace constraint: Reserved Prefixes and Namespace Names
> 
> The prefix xml is by definition bound to the namespace name 
> http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. It MAY, but need not, be declared, 
> and MUST NOT be undeclared or bound to any other namespace name. Other 
> prefixes MUST NOT be bound to this namespace name, and it MUST NOT be 
> declared as the default namespace. 
> 
> The prefix xmlns is used only to declare namespace bindings and is by 
> definition bound to the namespace name http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/. It 
> MUST NOT be declared or undeclared. Other prefixes MUST NOT be bound to 
> this namespace name, and it MUST NOT be declared as the default
> namespace. 
> Element names MUST NOT have the prefix xmlns. 
> 
> All other prefixes beginning with the three-letter sequence x, m, l, in 
> any case combination, are reserved. This means that: 
> users SHOULD NOT use them except as defined by later specifications
> processors MUST NOT treat them as fatal errors.
> 
> Though they are not themselves reserved, it is inadvisable to use
> prefixed 
> names whose LocalPart begins with the letters x, m, l, in any case 
> combination, as these names would be reserved if used without a prefix. 
> ----------
> 
> The emphasis on the last paragraph is mine.  Use of LocalParts beginning 
> with xml is discouraged, but they are quite clearly not reserved.  If a 
> Recommendation like XML Schema assigned them a meaning in a namespace not 
> controlled by the W3C, that would be an error IMO.
> 
> Noah
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#dt-name
> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names11/#xmlReserved
> 
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