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- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- To: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>, XML Dev <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 14:10:46 -0800
At 04:53 PM 1/29/99 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
>> <html xmlns="http://namespaceplace.com/html.dtd">
>> <body bgcolor="#ffffff">
>>
>> then body is part of the http://namespaceplace.com/html.dtd namespace, but
>> its attribute bgcolor is not? (bgcolor belongs to no namespace)
>
>No. An attribute not explicitly labeled with a prefix belongs to the
>same namespace as its element.
No. Adam Donahue is correct on this one. The spec says explicitly,
and then belabors the point with examples; defaults don't apply to
attributes. The only attribute that has a namespace is one that
has a prefix.
Now clearly, an application processing an unprefixed attribute will
know the namespace (if any) of the element to which it's attached,
and may well use that information. For example, in
<html:a href="...">
an HTML processor may (& probably should) choose to process that href
attribute in an HTML-ish way; BUT, the href attribute is not, in the
formal terminology of the spec, in the html or any other namespace. -T.
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