Namespaces does *not* formally introduce "global attributes"

[Mark Birbeck]

David Megginson wrote:
> Mark Birbeck writes:
>  > Reminds me of a question I had a while back: ...
>
> Further to this topic, the following note does appear in the XML 1.0
> spec:
> 
> Note: The colon character within XML names is reserved for
>       experimentation with name spaces. ...
> 
> In other words, you're allowed to use ':' for non-namespace purposes
> but you're playing with fire if you do.
> 

Thanks David. I was trying to find it in all of the namespace
documentation/comment, but didn't realise that the topic was anticipated
in XML 1.0. (With all that that implies! Won't open hornets nest now
thought.)

Thanks again.

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