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Greetings,
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Richard Tobin wrote:
> There's no point in having a namespaced version of an attribute that
> is only ever used on elements from that namespace [*].
Well, there is, since this is the only way to get an attribute in a
namespace using only the logic of the current spec -- that is, without
the effective extension to the spec that Simon is suggesting as best
practice.
> It's verbose ...
This is XML -- if folk cared about verbosity it, and especially XSLT,
would look very different! (I'm only partly joking).
In any case, the application's semantics can sweep up no-namespace
attributes, just as XSLT processors are obliged to observe the
no-namespace attributes on `xsl:' namespace elements.
> (b) Always use the unnamespaced version on elements from the same
> namespace.
...which is this case, I think.
All the best,
Norman
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