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

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> This does not mean that one is _required_ to assign _a different_ interpretation to each of the above cases, rather it means that one _is not required_ to assign _the same_ interpretation to each of the above cases. The distinction is important.

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?

Respectfully,

Walter Perry