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   Re: [xml-dev] Global/Local attributes

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I used the wrong term.  Sorry.  "Named namespaces" should have been
"prefixed declared namespace".  I agree with your statement.  Mine was
worded wrong to start with...

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Seairth Jacobs
seairth@seairth.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Bray" <tbray@textuality.com>
To: "Seairth Jacobs" <seairth@seairth.com>
Cc: "xml-dev" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Global/Local attributes


> Seairth Jacobs wrote:
>
> >
> > But it isn't just syntactic minimization.  Named namespaces and default
> > namespaces are not they same.  They have different semantics.  You
cannot
> > necessarily use them interchangably.
>
> Wrong.  They have different *syntax* rules.  At the end of the day,
> every element & attribute always has a local part, and may or may not
> have a namespace name - whether the namespace name was defaulted or
> explicit is typically never of concern to someone processing the data
> downstream (with the exception of editor-class applications). -Tim
>
>





 

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