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> From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@simonstl.com]
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> Maybe it's worth making a point that
> namespaces for global attributes should be distinct from
> namespaces for elements? That seems to be a fairly common
> design pattern, though I'm not sure I want to hold up XLink
> or W3C XML Schema's xsi:stuff as a shining example.
If you have an XML langauge which has an attribute that is supposed to
mean the same thing wherever it appears, then with a little thought, the
thing to do is mandate that attribute has a URI, ie in XML it has a
QName. Thus under XMLNS, the attribute gets prefixed in all contexts.
regards,
Bill de hÓra
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Propylon
www.propylon.com
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