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Re: [xml-dev] Global or shared namespace?
Forwarding the reply from Arnaud Le Hors (co-chair of XML Core WG):
> > 3) How does DOM L2 not conform to the NS Rec?
>
> It puts namespace declaration attributes into a specific
> namespace, contradicting a requirement (in the text
> quoted above) in the namespace REC.
While this is true, the DOM conforms to the Infoset spec [1], and that
behavior was agreed upon by the W3C XML Core WG, as stated at [2]. The
current situation where various W3C specs disagree on this is
unfortunate
but things should improve in the future. It is safe to say that the
Infoset
which is the most recent spec sets the way the W3C intends to go.
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset
[2] http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/
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Arnaud Le Hors - IBM, XML Standards Strategy Group / W3C AC Rep.