OK, good to know. That raises my confidence level that we can leave things
as they have been. Just want to make 100% sure that what we had done is
now OK.
Cheers,
E.
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Eliot Kimber, Owner
Contrext, LLC
http://contrext.com
On 8/20/14, 10:21 AM, "Jirka Kosek" <> wrote:
>On 20.8.2014 15:17, Eliot Kimber wrote:
>> I've sent email to Liam Quin, XML Activity Lead at the W3C, to get
>> confirmation that this restriction has been removed. It's clearly
>>removed
>> by the errata to the XML 1.0 specification, but I'm not seeing a
>> corresponding errata to the XML 1.1 specification, so I'm not entirely
>> sure what the implications are. I've asked Liam for guidance.
>
>XML 1.1 is simply dead, so any erratas, clarifications are applied only
>to XML 1.0 (5th/latest edition).
>
>As I was one who proposed lifting of this restriction on names and was
>attending W3C XML Core WG meeting where this was discussed you can be
>sure that restriction has been removed.
>
>Main reason for removal was that you (DITA TC) were not only subject who
>defined and deployed elements starting with xml* as this restriction is
>not very well known and tools are not emitting any warnings. And since
>introduction of namespaces there is no reason to reserve prefix xml.
>Special elements and attributes can be put in xml: namespace (like
>xml:base for example).
>
>But of course you can double check with Liam, he was on this meeting as
>well.
>
> Jirka (not on behalf of XML Core WG :-)
>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> E.
>> —————
>> Eliot Kimber, Owner
>> Contrext, LLC
>> http://contrext.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8/20/14, 3:21 AM, "Jirka Kosek" <> wrote:
>>
>>> On 19.8.2014 2:52, Nancy Harrison wrote:
>>>> We may need to revisit those element names, unless someone has a good
>>>> reason for why we wouldn't have to follow that part of the spec.
>>>
>>> Please note that this restriction on names has been recently removed
>>>from XML spec, see:
>>>
>>> http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-V10-5e-errata
>>>
>>> So you can now safely use element and attribute names starting with
>>>"xml".
>>>
>>> I thought that TC was already aware of this change when new xml*
>>> elements were introduced.
>>>
>>> Jirka
>>>
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