At 2:40 PM -0700 4/27/02, Christopher R. Maden wrote:
>><foo src="bar" xmlns:src="some-uri" />
>
>This is perfectly legal, but note that what you have is an element with one
>attribute and one namespace declaration - *not* two attributes.
>
No, there are two attributes here. One has the name src and one has
the name xmlns:src. The XML 1.0 specification is quite clear about
this. Namespaces in XML does not change this. Indeed it states, "A
namespace is declared using a family of reserved attributes. Such an
attribute's name must either be xmlns or have xmlns: as a prefix.
These attributes, like any other XML attributes, may be provided
directly or by default." Even the infoset calls these "namespace
attributes" and specifies that each one is represented as an
attribute information item. Obviously, these are attributes.
Some applications of XML choose to separate out namespace attributes
from other attributes. XSLT is most notable here. Others always
include them. DOM is most notable here. And still others make it a
user-specifiable option. SAX is most notable here. But there's really
no grounds for the claim that xmlns:src is not an attribute.
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