Re: [Sax-devel] SAX and xmlns (again)

[Elliotte R. H. <el...@me...>]

At 2:07 PM -0500 12/19/02, Elena Litani wrote:


>This declaration is false (see [3], [4]) and should not appear on this
>page. Could someone fix it?
>

No, it's not false. It's true, and it does not need to be fixed. The 
xmlns prefix is not bound to any namespace. This is what the 
namespaces spec says. It's what it's always said.

The DOM group at the W3C violated this principle in DOM. Then they 
strong-armed the core working group into retroactively endorsing this 
violation in the Infoset and the errata to namespaces. The latter was 
a significant violation of advertised W3C practices. I do not accept 
it as normative, nor does SAX.

The problem here is with processes that allow such significant 
changes to be made that completely reverse the clear language of the 
specification without issuing a new version of the spec.

We've been through all this before. Nothing has changed.
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