RE: [xml-dev] QNames in attribute values

"When the binding of a name and its use can be close together, for human-maintained documents, 
mistakes are much less likely."  Tim-BL

Huh? 

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Prescod [mailto:]

I'll take a whack at that troll. The SGML-heads tried to make namespaces
global and (IIRC, use a syntax other than attributes). But here's Tim
Berners-Lee's opinion:

http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Extensible.html#Local

SGML compatibility had nothing to do with the scoped attribute syntax.