[XML-SIG] Element.localName, Attr.localName

[Uche Ogbuji]

> Uche Ogbuji wrote:
> > > 
> > > Martin v. Loewis writes:
> > >  > > <doc xmlns:a="http://xml.python.org/a"
> > >  > >      xmlns:A="http://xml.python.org/a"
> > >  > >      xmlns:b="http://xml.python.org/b"
> > >  > >      a:a="a" b:b="b"
> > >  > >      />
> > >  > > 
> > >  > > This is just XML 1.0, no namespaces!
> > >  > 
> > >  > Why do you say that this document has no namespaces? It looks to me
> > >  > like it has!
> > > 
> > > Because I've said this is only an XML 1.0 document only; it happens to
> > > attributes that would be namespace declarations and prefixes if
> > > namespace processing were active, but it isn't.
> > 
> > Umm.  Not so fast.  This document is not XML 1.0 well-formed because attribute 
> > names starting with "xml" are reserved.
> 
> Bzzt. Names starting with "xml" are reserved, yes, but this is a semantic
> reservation ("don't use it unless it's for the purpose we say it's for), not a
> well-formedness constraint.

OK, you are right on the technicality (I would have jabbed you with the same 
ice pick ;-)  ).  But I don't think it changes the practical discussion.  The 
semantic restriction is fully in place because minidom is namespace-aware, 
which means that it is meaningless to say that that Fred's document is not an 
XML namespace document.  I think this is what Martin has been sayig in his 
cryptic way  :-).


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