On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Simon Pieters wrote: > > Reading further in the spec I find that the QNames in attribute values > issue is also present with the special values xbl:text and xbl:lang. I > feel uncomfortable about those, too, for the same reasons.
While I understand your concern, QNames in attribute values are IMHO too convenient a mechanism compared to the benefits of enabling prefix rewriting to warrant introducing a second namespace declaration syntax. Please let me know if you disagree so that I can clearly mark your disagreement in the disposition of comments. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
