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Subject: Re: [dita] Fwd: DITA 1.3 "XML mention" question
OK, good to know. That raises my confidence level that we can leave things as they have been. Just want to make 100% sure that what we had done is now OK. Cheers, E. ————— Eliot Kimber, Owner Contrext, LLC http://contrext.com On 8/20/14, 10:21 AM, "Jirka Kosek" <jirka@kosek.cz> wrote: >On 20.8.2014 15:17, Eliot Kimber wrote: >> I've sent email to Liam Quin, XML Activity Lead at the W3C, to get >> confirmation that this restriction has been removed. It's clearly >>removed >> by the errata to the XML 1.0 specification, but I'm not seeing a >> corresponding errata to the XML 1.1 specification, so I'm not entirely >> sure what the implications are. I've asked Liam for guidance. > >XML 1.1 is simply dead, so any erratas, clarifications are applied only >to XML 1.0 (5th/latest edition). > >As I was one who proposed lifting of this restriction on names and was >attending W3C XML Core WG meeting where this was discussed you can be >sure that restriction has been removed. > >Main reason for removal was that you (DITA TC) were not only subject who >defined and deployed elements starting with xml* as this restriction is >not very well known and tools are not emitting any warnings. And since >introduction of namespaces there is no reason to reserve prefix xml. >Special elements and attributes can be put in xml: namespace (like >xml:base for example). > >But of course you can double check with Liam, he was on this meeting as >well. > > Jirka (not on behalf of XML Core WG :-) > >> Cheers, >> >> E. >> ————— >> Eliot Kimber, Owner >> Contrext, LLC >> http://contrext.com >> >> >> >> >> On 8/20/14, 3:21 AM, "Jirka Kosek" <jirka@kosek.cz> wrote: >> >>> On 19.8.2014 2:52, Nancy Harrison wrote: >>>> We may need to revisit those element names, unless someone has a good >>>> reason for why we wouldn't have to follow that part of the spec. >>> >>> Please note that this restriction on names has been recently removed >>>from XML spec, see: >>> >>> http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-V10-5e-errata >>> >>> So you can now safely use element and attribute names starting with >>>"xml". >>> >>> I thought that TC was already aware of this change when new xml* >>> elements were introduced. >>> >>> Jirka >>> >>> -- >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Jirka Kosek e-mail: jirka@kosek.cz http://xmlguru.cz >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Professional XML consulting and training services >>> DocBook customization, custom XSLT/XSL-FO document processing >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> OASIS DocBook TC member, W3C Invited Expert, ISO JTC1/SC34 rep. >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Bringing you XML Prague conference http://xmlprague.cz >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >> >> >-- >------------------------------------------------------------------ > Jirka Kosek e-mail: jirka@kosek.cz http://xmlguru.cz >------------------------------------------------------------------ > Professional XML consulting and training services > DocBook customization, custom XSLT/XSL-FO document processing >------------------------------------------------------------------ > OASIS DocBook TC member, W3C Invited Expert, ISO JTC1/SC34 rep. >------------------------------------------------------------------ > Bringing you XML Prague conference http://xmlprague.cz >------------------------------------------------------------------ >
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