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

[David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>]

On 22/09/2010 18:43, Pete Cordell wrote:
> Original Message From: "David Carlisle"
>
>> It is well formed. (and parsed as such by any xml parser I've tried).
>
> But as said earlier, what does "(and parsed as such by any xml parser
> I've tried)." prove!

only that maintainers of the parsers did not read that paragraph the way 
you did (but that could be wrong:-)

>

> At the end of the day though, I would say the pragmatic BCP approach is
> to not use names starting with xml other than those defined by W3C, and
> then only as intended. But, as Michael Kay said, the W3C does not make
> laws, so you're free to do what you want.
>

Or (in this case) you may be forced (or at least coerced) to to what 
microsoft want, much of their "xml islands" stuff revolves around an 
element that goes by the name <xml> which is pretty much directly 
against the spirit of the text in question, but sadly not I would say a 
non conformance to the letter of the spec.

David