Re: [dita] Fwd: DITA 1.3 "XML mention" question

[Eliot Kimber <ekimber@contrext.com>]

As expected, Liam confirms that the errata to XML 1.0 5th Edition removes
the restriction on names starting with "xml":

From Liam's reply to my mail:

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>However, it was subsequently pointed out that the errata to the 5th
>edition of XML 1.0 removes this restriction.

Yes.
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That satisfies me that we can leave the XML Domain design unchanged. It
might be worth noting this detail somewhere, either in the spec or
separately.

Cheers,

E.

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On 8/20/14, 8:17 AM, "Eliot Kimber" <ekimber@contrext.com> 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.
>
>Cheers,
>
>E.
>—————
>Eliot Kimber, Owner
>Contrext, LLC
>http://contrext.com
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>
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>On 8/20/14, 3:21 AM, "Jirka Kosek" <jirka@kosek.cz> 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.
>>
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