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On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 02:12:01PM -0800, Tim Bray wrote: > At 12:41 PM 27/02/02 -0800, Wayne Steele wrote: > >Question: > > > >Is the below document "conforming" with regard to the XML-Namespaces rec? > > > ><root xmlns:a="" /> > > It's not, but this is probably a bug BTW. You can "undeclare" the > default namespace like so: > > <root xmlns="foo" > > <child xmlns="" /> > </root> > > so why shouldn't you be able to undeclare other prefixes, e.g. > > <root xmlns:foo="bar" > > <child xmlns:foo="" /> > </root> > > James Clark was the first to notice this, but that was after > namespaces had been out for a year. > > BTW, *nobody* thinks it's a good idea to allow a namespace name > to be an empty string - if the abovec were allowed, it would > strictly be in the interests of undeclaring prefixes; which > would break no existing namespace semantics. Who knows, > it might even get done someday. -Tim I have good faith it will be done, yes. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Network https://rhn.redhat.com/ veillard@r... | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/
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