26 Aug TC Action: Note on 'xml' prefix

On 8/28/2014 1:09 PM, Nancy Harrison
      wrote:

    

     Don will draft a note on our decision to use the
      'xml' prefix for our xmlmention domain, to be put into xmlmention
      topic explaining the issue.
    7. XML mention domain revisited

    [More research has revealed that the reservation of the 'xml' string
    is no longer in the XML spec, so we can avoid having to make any
    changes.]

    Kris; so, we were unaware of fact that it was no longer a problem.

    Don; in the future, we need to be cautious; we can go ahead with
    using the 'xml', but we need to explain it, for people who remember
    the reservation and don't know it's gone away.

    Michael; we could include a note and link in the xmlmention topic

    Robert; we don't want too much, just a note and/or link in the
    parent xmlmention topic.

    ActionItem; Don will draft the note to be put into topic explaining
    the issue.

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    <note>Although the original XML 1.0 Recommendation
    specifically reserved element names beginning with 'xml' or 'XML'
    for the use of the XML standard itself, the subsequent introduction
    of namespaces (for example, xml:base) made the restriction moot and
    it was removed in the <xref
    href="" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-V10-5e-errata">"http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-V10-5e-errata" scope="external"
    format="html">errata to the 5th edition of the XML 1.0
    Recommendation</xref>, which effectively replaces the XML 1.1.
    The OASIS DITA Technical Committee acknowledges this revised policy
    in its use of the semantically precise prefix 'xml' for the XML
    Mention domain.</note>

    

    
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