Re: [xml-dev] My report on experiments with unused namespaces

["Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@codalogic.com>]

Original Message From: "David Carlisle"
> On 22/09/2010 13:13, Pete Cordell wrote:
>> So xmlns:numberOfItems="3" is not legal.
>
> It's legal according to the namespace spec, but deprecated by a later 
> note. Relative URI references are allowed but deprecated, the result of a 
> long winded discussion some years after the namespace rec was published as 
> noted in (at least) the third edition of the namespace spec.

Doesn't this depend what you call _the_ namespace spec?  I would take _the_ 
namespace spec to be the latest one; i.e. 3rd edition.  As you've stated 
above, this has the note about deprecation in it.  Does the W3C have a 
different idea?

The next thing to sort out is what the W3C's definition of 'deprecated' is. 
I would say it means that the above XML is legal for a legacy piece of XML 
(appealing to Namespaces 1st Ed), but illegal for an XML language defined 
after the publication of Namespaces 2nd Ed (Aug 2006).

Pete Cordell
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