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Bug 8990 - Attributes starting with xmlns: are conforming even if illegal per Namespaces in XML
Summary: Attributes starting with xmlns: are conforming even if illegal per Namespaces...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML+RDFa (editor: Manu Sporny) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Manu Sporny
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://dev.w3.org/html5/rdfa/#conform...
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Reported: 2010-02-14 07:21 UTC by Maciej Stachowiak
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:05 UTC (History)
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Description Maciej Stachowiak 2010-02-14 07:21:23 UTC
5.2 Conformance Criteria for xmlns:-Prefixed Attributes appears to state that any attribute whose name starts with "xmlns:" is conforming, this apparently would include even attributes that are not conforming per Namespaces in XML, such as ones with non-XML characters in the name, or with multiple colons. I assume this is not intended.
Comment 1 Manu Sporny 2010-02-16 04:28:28 UTC
RDFA-SPEC-SECTIONS [conformance-criteria-for-xmlns:-prefixed-attributes]
Comment 2 Manu Sporny 2010-05-05 02:45:17 UTC
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Status: Fixed

Change Description: 

Added the following text:

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/rdfa/drafts/ED-rdfa-in-html-20100504/Overview.html.diff?r1=1.6&r2=1.7&f=h

"""
All attributes starting with a case insensitive prefix matching "xmlns:" must conform to the production rules outlined in Namespaces in XML [XML-NAMES11], Section 3: Declaring Namespaces. Documents that contain xmlns: attributes that do not conform to Namespaces in XML must not be accepted as conforming.
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Rationale:

All xmlns: values must follow Namespaces in XML to be considered conforming.
Comment 3 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:05:58 UTC
mass-move component to LC1