Re: Showstopper issue with new Attribute text

[email protected] wrote on 03/10/2004 04:57:57 PM:

> Consider this element: <name xmlns="http://www.example.com"/>
> The proposed text says that this element's attribute has the local 
> name of an empty string and the qualified name xmlns. I don't buy it. 
> With or without namespaces, with or without Namespaces 1.1, the local 
> name of an attribute is never the empty string. the local name of 
> this attribute (if it's reported at all) is "xmlns", not "".
>
> Furthermore, I think in this element the xmlns attribute is no 
> namespace, according to the Namespace 1.1 recommendation. (I could be 
> wrong about that, but it's how I read the spec.)

The infoset REC says that attributes named 'xmlns' have a namespace. For 
the [namespace attributes] property of element information items [1], it 
says: "By definition, all namespace attributes (including those named 
xmlns, whose [prefix] property has no value) have a namespace URI of 
http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/."

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-infoset-20040204/#infoitem.element

Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
E-mail: [email protected]
E-mail: [email protected]