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- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- To: Mike Brown <mbrown@corp.webb.net>
- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 15:04:23 -0400
Mike Brown wrote:
> Should applications only recognize xml:space as xml:space,
Yes.
> or would
> it be correct to also recognize foo:space, if the foo prefix is
> bound to 'http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace'?
No. The "xml" prefix gets a namespace as a matter of convenience,
but is itself magic. To assume otherwise would hurt interoperability.
The same is true of the "xmlns" prefix.
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