Re: [xml-dev] Should attributes be prefixed

[Bob Hutchison <hutch@xampl.com>]

On 01/11/22 7:26 AM, "David Megginson" <david@megginson.com> wrote:
> 
> <inv:invoice date="20011122" acme:authority="dpm">
>   ...
> </inv:invoice>
> 
> Presuming that the "invoice" model designers were bright enough to
> write clear processing rules, including "ignore any unrecognized
> attribute not in the invoice Namespace", then the extra attribute will
> be guaranteed not to break anyone else's processing software.
> 

Shouldn't this be "ignore any unrecognized attribute not in the invoice
Namespace, but don't forget to pass it along to downstream XML processors"?
Not stripping the unrecognized attributes in a stream of XML
processors/applications is going to be important if this is going to work, I
think. Am I missing something?

Cheers,
Bob