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On 3/10/2009 4:37 PM, Norman Rasmussen wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Brett Zamir
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<div class="h5">Nice idea... I'd like to add lack of full XML and
namespace support
(ok, maybe not XML with notations, external DTDs, etc., but processing
instructions could have been handy)... But moving forward, no outlawing
of namespaced attributes anywhere, and especially true namespacing in
Data Forms... (and perhaps requiring acceptance of <s:stream
xmlns:s='...'/>, etc., while we're at it).</div>
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surely that's an implementation issue? <br>
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Well, yes, but there are issues such as these in the specs:<br>
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1) RFC3920bis-09: "for historical reasons MAY accept only the 'stream:'
prefix"<br>
2) RFC3921bis-08: "The <show/> element MUST NOT possess any
attributes." (also with <status/>, <priority/>,
<body/>, <subject/>)<br>
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The latter could be made to state "MUST NOT possess any non-namespaced
attributes".<br>
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type="cite">In theory xml:lang SHOULD be supported, so it's not really
a question.<br>
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xml:lang can be supported without namespace awareness--the original XML
spec (before XML Namespaces) allows, without reservation, the colon in
an XML Name (as in an
attribute), but according to the above issues, an implementation could
theoretically (if not actually) use a parser which rejects any
attributes on such elements.<br>
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Brett<br>
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