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• Subject: Re: Should attributes be prefixed
• From: Bob Hutchison <hutch@x...>
• Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 10:19:59 -0500
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On 01/11/22 7:26 AM, "David Megginson" <david@m...> wrote:
> 
> <inv:invoice date="20011122" acme:authority="dpm">
>   ...
> </inv:invoice>
> 
> Presuming that the "invoice" model designers were bright enough to
> write clear processing rules, including "ignore any unrecognized
> attribute not in the invoice Namespace", then the extra attribute will
> be guaranteed not to break anyone else's processing software.
> 

Shouldn't this be "ignore any unrecognized attribute not in the invoice
Namespace, but don't forget to pass it along to downstream XML processors"?
Not stripping the unrecognized attributes in a stream of XML
processors/applications is going to be important if this is going to work, I
think. Am I missing something?

Cheers,
Bob

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