Re: Internet-Draft: Media Feature - xmlns

On 24 Jan 2002, Simon St.Laurent wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 22:14, Ian Graham wrote:
> > My only suggestion, for what it's worth, would be to allow for the
> > declaration (and please don't overinterpret that word ;-) ) of the 'root'
> > namespace for a document.  That seems a reasonable distinction to make,
> > although you'd then have to define how such a statement interacts with
> > content-type declarations such as application/xml+mathml (would that, in
> > some twisted way, imply a default 'root'-level namespace, and if so,
> > how?).
> 
> Personally, I believe that the root namespace is not a definitive guide
> to the contents of the document.  The XSLT case is prominent, but there
...

Well, in practice there is only one namespace distinction you can make --
between the 'root' namespace and all others.  Specifying both classes thus
provides, _all_ the namespace information you can provide in the absence
of the complete document instance.  It seemed to me silly to avoid
providing this information when it's so easy to (notationally) do so. 


Ian