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• Subject: Re: If prefix is exactly 'xml'
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 11:19:42 -0800
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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nmehrega@c... wrote:

> Does this mean that if the user does use the 'xml' prefix, should the
> processor reject all local parts other than 'lang' and 'space'?  (ie.
> should <A xml:root = " ... " /> be a fatal error?)

Nope, it's just another attribute, but you'd be stupid to do this 
because someone at W3C might bless a meaning for this in the future... 
the idea is that the spec-writers own the "xml:" namespace and you 
shouldn't go there. -Tim

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