If there are no default namespaces then there is no problem #2. If an
element/attribute isn't prefixed then there is no ambiguity; It has no
namespace name.
What have I missed?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kian-Tat Lim [mailto:]
> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 12:02 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Default namespaces are *evil*! (RE:
> [xml-dev] Global/Local attributes)
>
>
> Aaron Skonnard wrote:
> > And this madness [of attribute rule vs. element rule for unprefixed
> > names] would go away with the death of default namespaces.
>
> That solves one problem, but not the other.
>
> The problems are:
>
> 1) Without surrounding context, it is not possible to
> determine whether an unprefixed name belongs to no namespace
> or to the default namespace.
>
> 2) There are two kinds of names: names belonging to no
> namespace and names belonging to a namespace.
>
> Killing default namespaces only takes care of problem #1.
>
> Killing "no namespace" names in namespaced documents takes
> care of both problems simultaneously.
>
> Default namespaces are not evil; they are just a syntactic
> shorthand or minimization. No-namespace names are the true evil.
>
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> Kian-Tat Lim, , UTF-7: +Z5de+pBU-
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