xml-dev - RE: "Namespaces in XML" idea?

[David Megginson <david@megginson.com>]

Dan Brickley writes:

 > > By the way, I was a little surprised to read that expat does not
 > > pass xmlns attributes to the application.  I had always assumed
 > > that attributes were part of the document's data and therefore
 > > the processor was required to pass them to the application.
 > > [...]
 > 
 > A pragmatic reason for passing on the xmlns:xyz information is that some
 > applications might want to go beyond what 'Namespaces in XML' itself
 > provides and use similarly abbreviated values _inside_ data attributes
 > instead of full URIs (eg. for data types), and make use of the XMLNS
 > info when doing so.

The easiest way to resolve this question would be to decide that

1. Namespace declarations do not appear as attributes in the
   Namespaces view; and

2. some applications may require information from both the XML 1.0 and 
   the Namespaces view concurrently.

Note that neither is normative -- I'm proposing them only as rules of
thumb.


All the best,


David

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