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  • From: Ed Davies <edavies AT nildram.co.uk>
  • To: xom-interest <xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] Scope of namespaces
  • Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 22:00:13 +0000

peter murray-rust wrote:
....
Recent discussion suggests that namespaced attribute and content values are considered harmful. It is possible to construct a system which does the same independently of XML machinery but it is more work and I thought I was gaining something from XML that helped.
....

Norman Walsh has some interesting suggestions for "XML 2.0" relevant
to this subject:

http://norman.walsh.name/2004/11/10/xml20

He'd allow something like:

<scalar xmlns:foo="http://foo"; dictRef="<:foo:abc>">1.23</scalar>

so that the parser could unambiguously recognise the QName in the
attribute value. Since it's only Norm's idea it's not much use
right now but it seems to me to be a plausible fix to a real
problem.

Ed.






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