FW: Docs for namespace and other processing instructions?

Tue Jan 5 02:06:05 GMT 1999

Thanks to Andrew for the answer to my question. Unfortunately, it raises a couple of other questions:

1. I assume reserved attributes such as "xmlns" need not be declared in DTD's (or other schema mechanisms). Is this correct?

2. Is there, or will there be, a centralized definition of XML reserved objects (attributes, processing instructions, etc.) that may be defined outside the XML spec, but which cut across general usage of the language? I think there should be.

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xml-dev at ic.ac.uk [mailto:owner-xml-dev at ic.ac.uk] On Behalf
Of Andrew Layman
Sent: Monday, January 04, 1999 5:47 PM
To: 'XML-DEV'
Subject: RE: Docs for namespace and other processing instructions?

The processing instruction was used in drafts of the Namespaces
specification until approximately August 1998, at which time it was
supplanted by the attributes now described in the spec.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey E. Sussna [mailto:jes at kuantech.com]
Sent: Monday, January 04, 1999 5:39 PM
To: 'XML-DEV'
Subject: Docs for namespace and other processing instructions?

I have seen several references to the processing instruction
"<?xml:namespace". I have also read the "Namespaces in XML" spec, which
discusses the "xmlns:" attribute. The relationship between the two is not
clear to me. My confusion may be connected to the fact that I have been
unable to find any formal documentation of "<?xml:namspace" or other
processing instructions. Is there any such formal documentation?

TIA,
Jeff Sussna

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