xml-dev - Re: Default Namespaces - why don't they apply to attributes?

[Jonathan Borden <jborden@mediaone.net>]

Ronald Bourret wrote:
>
> By the way, I would be really curious to see any applications for which
> knowing of an attribute is "in" a namespace -- as opposed simply
>identifying
> the attribute -- is important. I can't think of any, but maybe I'm just
> unimaginative.
> 

A counter example would be the use of attributes in shorthand RDF
serializations.

Jonathan Borden
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