Well I suppose as follows:
a reserved name is reserved for usage by the W3C.
If it is a reserved name that is in use then it has a W3C determined meaning.
If it is a reserved name that is not in use then to use it is
incorrect - but it does not have a W3C determined meaning.
So if xmlns is used it should either raise an error because it starts
with a sequence of characters that is reserved and which has not been
defined in the particular parser or it should pass because it is a
sequence of characters that has a known usage, that usage being
specified by the W3C.
No?
Cheers,
Bryan Rasmussen
On Jan 17, 2008 3:45 PM, Michael Kay <> wrote:
> > But because starting with xml is reserved that
> > implies that xmlns has a W3C determined meaning.
>
> Something wrong with your logic there. All names starting with xml are
> reserved but nearly all such names have no W3C determined meaning.
>
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> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
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