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

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> Simon, 
>   The feature isn't useless. Most people agree that attributes are meant for annotating elements. The Namespaces in XML recommendation allows authors to choose between context sensitive attribute values E.g. 
>  
> <myns:Parent name="must be a number between 1 - 100"><myns:Child name="can be any string"/></myns:Parent>
>  
> or creating global attributes that represent the same idea regardless of what element they appear on
>  
> <myns:Parent myns:id="must be unique in document"><myns:Child myns:id="must be unique in document"><></myns:Parent>


How would this distinction (which is old hat and agreed upon by *everyone* in 
this discussion) be impaired by the specification that unprefixed attributes 
are in their element's namespace?


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