- From: Simon Pieters <zcorpan@hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 23:16:03 +0000
- To: public-appformats@w3.org
Hi, From: "Simon Pieters" <zcorpan@hotmail.com> >In XBL namespace prefixes in Selectors are declared with the xmlns:foo="" >notation[1]: > >>In XBL attributes that take selectors, the namespace prefixes that may be >>used >>are the prefixes that are in scope using the xmlns:* syntax. > >I feel uncomfortable about this. The XML namespace prefix is just syntactic >sugar to bind a namespace name to an element or an attribute. The >application might not even know about the prefixes, if it is using another >model than the DOM. Also, XML documents might be namespace prefix >rewritten, which shouldn't change the semantics of the document. Reading further in the spec I find that the QNames in attribute values issue is also present with the special values xbl:text and xbl:lang. I feel uncomfortable about those, too, for the same reasons. Regards, Simon Pieters
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