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That seems reasonable to me. It looks like another loophole that the XML-Namespaces REC forgot to address. Henry: Do you think this could be addressed in a Normative W3C document? Unlike the many other Namespace issues, you may be able to gain a consensus on this point. -Wayne Steele >From: ht@c... (Henry S. Thompson) >To: Tim Bray <tbray@t...> >CC: Mike Brown <mbrown@c...>, "'xml-dev@l...'" ><xml-dev@l...> >Subject: Re: foo:space instead of xml:space? >Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:44:58 +0000 > >With respect and concern, since going up against Tim _and_ Andrew is >pretty risky at the best of times, I think it's crucial that I be >allowed to use whatever prefix I like for the >'http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace' namespace. >Just because it's magic 'forwards' (i.e. xml: always works, without a >declaration), doesn't mean it has to be magic 'backwards' (i.e. the >only prefix allowed for that NS URI is 'xml'). To do that seems to me >to take away one of the fundamental designed-in flexibilities of the >Namespace REC, namely that prefixes are for _my_ convenience. > >It would require a significant and messy change to XML Schema as >currently spec'ed to impose this restriction: as it stands we treat >the XML namespace like any other (indeed there's a thread running >elsewhere about the XML Schema document which now lives at >http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace.xsd), and the schema document for >XML Schemas itself (at http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema.xsd) uses >'x:' for importing and declaring xml:lang. > >ht >-- _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
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