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   Re: [xml-dev] Global/Local attributes

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> I agree.  It is a radical change.  However, the reasoning behind it was that
> you currently have no way of using attributes defined in the default
> namespace, which seems counter-intuitive to me.

"no way" is putting it too strongly. You just have to declare a prefix
and use that. Same is true to refer to such elements in Xpath
it's quite common to declare the same namesapce with "" and with a non
empty prefix.


> In the end, however, I agree with Dare that the better thing would be to get
> rid of default namespaces.

"default namespace" is just a namespace which has a current binding to a
prefix of "" together with a syntactic quirk that if the prefix is ""
then you omit the ":" isn't it?

David

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