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

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Mukul Gandhi wrote:

> Now what namespace binding applies to element x and attribute xyz. To
> element x, the default namespace applies (http://my.com/namespace).
> But attribute xyz is in the null namespace (i.e. there is no namespace
> binding applicable to it). This is what that looks illogical to me.

Yes, it might seem illogical and I think that many people have really 
hard time to understand to section A.2 
(http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#ns-breakdown) in the XML namespaces 
specification which introduces two sort of attributes -- global 
(namespaced) and local.

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