On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 02:12:01PM -0800, Tim Bray wrote:
>  At 12:41 PM 27/02/02 -0800, Wayne Steele wrote:
>  >Question:
>  >
>  >Is the below document "conforming" with regard to the XML-Namespaces rec?
>  >
>  ><root xmlns:a="" />
>  
>  It's not, but this is probably a bug BTW.  You can "undeclare" the
>  default namespace like so:
>  
>  <root xmlns="foo" >
>   <child xmlns="" />
>   </root>
>  
>  so why shouldn't you be able to undeclare other prefixes, e.g.
>  
>  <root xmlns:foo="bar" >
>    <child xmlns:foo="" />
>    </root>
>  
>  James Clark was the first to notice this, but that was after
>  namespaces had been out for a year.
>  
>  BTW, *nobody* thinks it's a good idea to allow a namespace name 
>  to be an empty string - if the abovec were allowed, it would
>  strictly be in the interests of undeclaring prefixes; which
>  would break no existing namespace semantics.  Who knows,
>  it might even get done someday. -Tim

  I have good faith it will be done, yes.

Daniel

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