In this case, "Reserved" means "If you do it for any reason *except* as
part of an approved standard, don't complain if a later standard yanks that
name out from under you."
As a specific example: Consider how XML Namespaces was introduced. It
relies on attributes starting with xmlns. If parsers had rejected these, we
would have been unable to use them to prototype code which depended upon
this new standard. Of course anyone who happened to have used an xmlns or
xmlns:* attribute had their document broken by this change, but that's
their fault for having used a reserved name.
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Joe Kesselman, IBM Next-Generation Web Technologies: XML, XSL and more.
"The world changed profoundly and unpredictably the day Tim Berners Lee
got bitten by a radioactive spider." -- Rafe Culpin, in r.m.filk
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