Re: [xml-dev] The subsetting has begun

From
Elliotte Rusty Harold <>
To
Bill de hÓra <>
Date
2003-02-25T13:43:49Z
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Re: [xml-dev] The subsetting has begun
At 9:50 AM +0000 2/25/03, Bill de hÓra wrote:

>I'm not exagerrating. And what you're saying is irrelevant. XML 
>documents without an xmlms attribute on the root doesn't have a 
>meaningful XML Infoset. I'll stick my neck and say most XML 
>documents are not namespaced.

Any document that is namespace well-formed has an Infoset, including 
documents that don't use namespaces at all, providing they also don't 
use colons in element and attributes names (except for xml: of course)
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