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At 9:47 AM -0500 3/17/04, David Megginson wrote:
>a) an attribute with no Namespace URI and the local name "xmlns";
>
>b) an attribute with the Namespace URI
>"http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/" and no local name; or
>
>c) an attribute with the Namespace URI
>"http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/" and the local name "xmlns".
>
>Note that none of these is a clean solution, probably because
>Namespaces 1.1 is a bit broken. Then again, I doubt it matters
>much. If no one presents a convincing argument, I'll just pick one
>of the three at random.
Agreed except for picking one at random. I prefer option c when the
xmlns-uris feature is true; option a when xmlns-uris is false.
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Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo@metalab.unc.edu
Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA
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