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   Re: [xml-dev] Re: URIs, concrete (was Re: [xml-dev] Un-ask the question)

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> I'm saying that applications and humans should ignore the
> distinction.)

maybe it's just a wording thing.

but it sems to me that if I'm to treat the href attribute
in <html:a href=... as being in the XHTML namespace
then I am to think of it as being equivalent to
<html:a html:href=...
and that if I am to think of the html namespace as having an href
attribute then I should expect to be able to use it on any element if I
declare the html namespace (just as for xlink).

> though I'm not sure I want to hold
> up XLink or W3C XML Schema's xsi:stuff as a shining example.

well no, certainly not schema:-) but the general idea of namespaced
attributes seems useful (if not so far well used). And I think your
proposed change would impact on that (even though you explictly stated
that it would not).

Any sensible application that has both namespaced and unnamespaced
attributes will have application specific rules to avoid the
rdf example that you state. For example xslt has both a version
attribute (for use on xslt elements) and an xsl:version attribute
for use on other elements) XSLT rules ensure that you can not use
xsl:version on xslt elements.



David

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