Re: [xml-dev] Default namespace for attributes?

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Mukul Gandhi wrote:
> The XML Namespaces Recommendation says that the default namespace
> applies only to elements, and not to attribues
> (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#defaulting).
>
> i.e. an unprefixed attribute name will always be in the null namespace.
>
> I am curious to know why this is so?

My own understanding is that attribute is always related to an element 
on which it appears. So you can know identity of unnamespaced attribute 
if you take current element into account, and you will save few bits of 
memory when parsing and processing XML.

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