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On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 09:37:41PM +0200, Toni Uusitalo wrote: > At 21:28 31.12.2003, you wrote: > >An attribute name of ":test" implies a blank prefix name, which is > >illegal. > > Yes, but couldn't that be treated simply as attribute (or same with element > name of course) > not belonging to any namespace, what's the danger of treating it that way? The colon is reerved for use by the namespace specification. Yes, namespaces might have been dsigned differently - but we needed experience with a flat (local-part, URI) design before introducing anything more complex. Currently, the namespaces in XML specification doesn't allow a name to start with a colon or to contain more than one colon, because it hasn't assigned a meaning for them. Furthermore, a name starting with a colon isn't a legal "name" token in XML, so they syntax doesn't allow that either. Hope ths helps, Liam -- Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/
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