a question concerning the HTML WD - XMLNS declaration in the root?

• From: Ben Adida <ben@mit.edu>
• Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 17:05:00 -0400
• To: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@x-port.net>, Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
• Cc: 'public-rdf-in-xhtml task force'' <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
• Message-Id: <c7beb73a1b4878bba6d3eb58f1173575@mit.edu>

Steven, Mark,

I meant to ask this question during today's telecon, and I forgot.

The Metainformation Attributes document says:

[[
Note that in order to reference relationship definitions via QName, 
their namespace must be defined via an xmlns attribute on the root 
element of the document
]]

Does the namespace really have to be declared in the root element of 
the document? Can't it be declared in any other parent element? I'm 
thinking particularly about the modularity issue, where one might not 
be able to edit the head of a document in a templated system.

Let me be more precise. Shouldn't the following work:

=====
This document is licensed under a
<a rel="cc:license" 
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/"
       xmlns:cc="http://web.resource.org/cc/">Creative Commons 
License</a>.
=====

Thanks,

-Ben

Received on Tuesday, 31 May 2005 21:04:56 UTC