Namespace Comments (and dtd encoding)

[MURATA Makoto]

Ron Bourret wrote:
> As far as I know, the xmlns attribute is inherited -- this is certainly implied 
> by the first example in section 5 of the namespace spec.  (Murata Makoto also 
> implies in a separate message that the prefix is not inherited.  Why?)

Because we cannot replace

<foo:A xmlns:foo="[first URI]" xmlns:bar="[second URI]" >
    <foo:B />
    <foo:C />
    <bar:D />
</foo:A>

with something like

<foo:A xmlns:foo="[first URI]" xmlns:bar="[second URI]" >
    <:B />
    <:C />
    <bar:D />
</foo:A>

This is what I meant by inheritance of prefixes, and it does not exist 
in the current working draft.

Makoto
 
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