• From: Peter Piatko <piatko@r...>
• To: "Fuchs, Matthew" <matthew.fuchs@c...>,'Tim Bray' <tbray@t...>, xml-dev@l...
• Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 22:19:20 -0400

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fuchs, Matthew" <matthew.fuchs@c...>
To: "'Tim Bray'" <tbray@t...>; <xml-dev@l...>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 4:11 PM
Subject: RE: Namespaces, schemas, Simon's filters.


> However, it has been argued that a serious lacuna in the original NS rec
is
> the lack of an attribute to specify a namespace that applies only to the
> _content_ of the current element, not the element itself.  Let's call it
> xmlcont for the moment.  Having such a thing would be very convenient,
both
> for validating and non-validating applications.  For example, if I'm
> inserting in one element content from another, with xmlcont I don't need
to
> worry about prefix collisions, eg:
>
> Source:
> <a:foo xmlns:a="foo">
>   <a:e1/>
>   <a:e2/>
> </a:foo>
>
> Target:
>
> <a:baz/>
> where a is defined somewhere above.
>
> Result:
>
> <a:foo xmlcont:a="foo">
>   <a:e1/>
>   <a:e2/>
> </a:foo>
>

Did you mean the following for the Result:

<a:baz xmlcont:a="foo">
  <a:e1/>
  <a:e2/>
</a:baz>

Or is it just too late in the day for me to be reading this mailing list?
;-)

Thanks,

Peter

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