Re: [xml-dev] targetNamespace and default namespace

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

At 2016-09-29 16:26 +0100, Michael Kay wrote:
> Someone, I think, had the bright idea that if a container element is 
> in a namespace
>
> <svg:svg xmlns:svg="http://svg.com/";>
>    <rectangle/>
>    <circle/>
> </svg:svg>
>
> then there is no good reason why its children need to be in a 
> namespace: like attributes, they are scoped by the container. The 
> idea didn't catch on, but the schema spec was written in the belief 
> that this was the way forwards.
This happened to be adopted for OASIS genericode.  Only the document 
element is in the genericode namespace, all descendants are in no namespace.

We have a RDDL document at the URL of the namespace URI:

   http://docs.oasis-open.org/codelist/ns/genericode/1.0/

So not only do we get scoping of the elements by the document 
element, we also get a pointer to documentation (by convention, not by spec).

. . . . . . . Ken


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