Cart
[Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries]
At 12:58 PM 30/08/00 -0400, Frank Boumphrey wrote: >Section 2 of the Namespaces rec declares ... >ie > <foo:a xmlns:foo="">In the foo namespace</foo:a> >is illegal >Can anyone tell me the reasoning behind this? Yes, that's illegal. My memory is fuzzy, but one of the important reasons is that if you have a default namespace <x xmlns="default-ns-uri"> and then you want to unset the default so there is none, the obvious way to do that is <subX xmlns="">, which doesn't mean the default ns is "", it means that there isn't a default ns. It would be distinctly weird if the semantics of <x xmlns=""> were wildly different from <x xmlns:foo="">. Also, the WG was (quite rightly, as history has shown) very nervous about relative URIs as namespace names, and "" only makes sense as a relative name. -Tim
|
