xml-dev - Re: foo:space instead of xml:space?

[Wayne Steele <xmlmaster@hotmail.com>]

That seems reasonable to me.

It looks like another loophole that the XML-Namespaces REC forgot to 
address.

Henry:
Do you think this could be addressed in a Normative W3C document?

Unlike the many other Namespace issues, you may be able to gain a consensus 
on this point.

-Wayne Steele



>From: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)
>To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
>CC: Mike Brown <mbrown@corp.webb.net>, "'xml-dev@lists.xml.org'" 
><xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
>Subject: Re: foo:space instead of xml:space?
>Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:44:58 +0000
>
>With respect and concern, since going up against Tim _and_ Andrew is
>pretty risky at the best of times, I think it's crucial that I be
>allowed to use whatever prefix I like for the
>'http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace' namespace.
>Just because it's magic 'forwards' (i.e. xml: always works, without a
>declaration), doesn't mean it has to be magic 'backwards' (i.e. the
>only prefix allowed for that NS URI is 'xml').  To do that seems to me
>to take away one of the fundamental designed-in flexibilities of the
>Namespace REC, namely that prefixes are for _my_ convenience.
>
>It would require a significant and messy change to XML Schema as
>currently spec'ed to impose this restriction: as it stands we treat
>the XML namespace like any other (indeed there's a thread running
>elsewhere about the XML Schema document which now lives at
>http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace.xsd), and the schema document for
>XML Schemas itself (at http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema.xsd) uses
>'x:' for importing and declaring xml:lang.
>
>ht
>--

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