Re: [xml-dev] assigning semantics to XML, Re: [xml-dev] Re: URIs, concrete (was Re: [xml-dev] Un-ask the question)

W. E. Perry wrote:

> I agree with you. To return to the narrower question with which this began, is it not John and Tim who are arguing, in effect, that we must assign a different interpretation in the processing of a attribute that is in no namespace than we might
> assign in processing the same attribute as if it were in the namespace of its element?

Nobody's saying you *must* assign a different interpretation.  But 
you're allowed to if you want.  BTW, I think this is a design error in 
the namespace rec, but I also think we're probably stuck with it. -Tim