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Mike Brown wrote:
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en">
This is not a problem. Under Simon's interpretation, the "lang"
attribute is in the same namespace as the element, to wit,
"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";. There is no conflict between
this and the "xml:lang" attribute, which is in a separate namespace.
The same goes for the "attribute versioning" example.
> > <x:y xmlns:x="http://example.com/"; x:a="1" a="2" />
This is a different issue: the "a" attribute under Simon's
interpretation is in the same namespace as the element --
which is also the same namespace as the "x:a" attribute.
Everyone agrees that a namespace is a collection of related
names, whether they be for elements or attributes. The whole
problem seems to me to be a dispute between those who think
names in no namespace belong to no collection and thus should
be avoided and those who think names in no namespace are
"locally scoped" -- defined in some ineffable way by their
parent but not belonging explicitly to the parent's namespace.
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Kian-Tat Lim, ktl@ktlim.com, UTF-7: +Z5de+pBU-
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