Canonical XML (was: Re: SGML, XML and SML)

Christopher R. Maden crism at exemplary.net
Tue Nov 23 08:53:37 GMT 1999


[Rick Jelliffe]
>The current canonical XML grammar is this:
>[3]    Stag    ::=    '<' Name NSDecl? (Att NSDecl?)* '>'

Is that right?  So

   <foo xmlns:bar="" xmlns:baz="">

is illegal, but

   <foo xmlns:bar="" biz="" xmlns:baz="">

is legal?  That can't be right.  It seems it should be

   [3] Stag ::= '<' Name (Att | NSDecl)* '>'

-Chris

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