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>other things, it isn't clear that applications - which should be processing >these attribute values - will ever get the prefix information, given some >strongly held beliefs that prefixes are throwaway info for the parser only. Applications that need to interpret namespace prefixes in attributes (or text data) will of course have to use a parser that provides the necessary information. And it to be expected that many parsers will provide it, since the binding of prefixes to URIs is a (peripheral) property of element information items in the infoset (http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset). > At the same time, the Namespaces spec doesn't tell parsers that they >should examine attribute values for namespace prefixes. (There's no >warning about using colons within attribute values in XML 1.0, either.) And that's how it should be. That an attribute value is interpreted as having a namespace prefix is an application-level decision, just like whether an attribute is interpreted as a URI (which similarly needs base URI information, again an infoset property of elements). -- Richard -- Spam filter: to mail me from a .com/.net site, put my surname in the headers. "The Internet is really just a series of bottlenecks joined by high speed networks." - Sam Wilson *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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