Original Message From: "Liam R E Quin"
> On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 00:00 -0400, Rick Yorgason wrote:
>
>> All this proposal does is take markup that's currently invalid and
>> define a valid behaviour for it.
>
> So people would start having an expectation that parsers would accept
> markup that they currently reject.
>
> So, the existing parsers would need to be replaced.
As I understand it, <foo:bar/> is an XML well-formed document, but is not an
XML Namespace well-formed document. Just because it isn't namespace
well-formed shouldn't mean it shouldn't be successfully parsed as an XML
well-formed document. There was some discussion on this on the libxml2
mailing list a while back (you might have to look at earlier mails in the
thread to get the context):
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2011-March/msg00022.html
Therefore I think it's at least suspect to treat <foo:bar/> as <bar
xmlns='foo'/>. Whether civilisation as we know it would fall apart if you
do I don't know!
So rather than doing:
<com.foo:bar/>
I would suggest doing:
<:com.foo:bar/>
This is XML well-formed, but the initial colon means that it is not XML
namespace well-formed. You could claim that it was XML namespace-bis
well-formed though.
HTH,
Pete Cordell
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