Re: [xml-dev] XHTML 2 Working Group won't be renewed?

[Michael Ludwig <mlu@as-guides.com>]

Andrew Welch schrieb:

> Two things that stand out for me to make them simpler:
>
> - dont allow changing the default namespace (so no xmlns="").  An
> unprefixed element is always in no namespace.

So no HTML, where the DTD supplies the xmlns attribute (the namespace
declaration)? That wouldn't be so cool. Putting the xmlns in the DTD
is a very good way of keeping the markup clean.

Maybe the DTD should be given more power.

> - I would allow the use of the namespace directly, eg
> <com.mycomp:elem> instead of forcing the definition of a prefix
> <m:elem xmlns="com.mycomp">

That looks very useful. There would have to be a rule saying that an
NSTOKEN occurring as a prefix which there is no declaration for passes
as a namespace. Why not?

In case you wonder what an NSTOKEN is: It is defined as an NMTOKEN minus
the colon.

Michael Ludwig