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Simon, The feature isn't useless. Most people agree that attributes are meant for annotating elements. The Namespaces in XML recommendation allows authors to choose between context sensitive attribute values E.g. <myns:Parent name="must be a number between 1 - 100"><myns:Child name="can be any string"/></myns:Parent> or creating global attributes that represent the same idea regardless of what element they appear on <myns:Parent myns:id="must be unique in document"><myns:Child myns:id="must be unique in document"><></myns:Parent> -----Original Message----- From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...] Sent: Wed 7/31/2002 3:10 PM To: Tim Bray Cc: XML DEV Subject: Re: Re: URIs, concrete (was Re: Un-ask the question) Tim Bray writes: > And yes, it is obvious that an attribute can draw the bulk of its > semantic import from the namespace it's in, rather than the context of > the containing element. Consider > > <anyOldElementAtAllIDontCareWhich xml:lang="fr">Bonjour! ... Yes, and you've completely missed my point yet again. I'm not arguing that prefixed attributes should be in the namespace of the element containing them. I'm arguing that _unprefixed_ attributes should be treated as if they had the same namespace as the element containing them. > There's a technical term for Simon's argument in this case: "wrong". There's a technical term for the Namespaces in XML Recommendation, but I'm afraid it's unprintable. I stand by my claim. I'd like to propose that it's past time to fix these issues instead of leaving them to fester. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
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