Re: [xml-dev] Re: Showstopper issue with new Attribute text

Norman Walsh <[email protected]> Thu, 25 Mar 2004 11:08:16 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.sax.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
/ Elliotte Rusty Harold <[email protected]> was heard to say:
| At 9:47 AM -0500 3/17/04, David Megginson wrote:
|
|>a) an attribute with no Namespace URI and the local name "xmlns";
|>
|> b) an attribute with the Namespace URI
|> "http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/" and no local name; or
|>
|> c) an attribute with the Namespace URI
|> "http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/" and the local name "xmlns".
|>
|> Note that none of these is a clean solution, probably because
|> Namespaces 1.1 is a bit broken.  Then again, I doubt it matters
|> much.  If no one presents a convincing argument, I'll just pick one
|> of the three at random.
|
| Agreed except for picking one at random. I prefer option c when the
| xmlns-uris feature is true; option a when xmlns-uris is false.

That's fine by me.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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