Namespace prefixes in attribute values

[Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg <Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM>]

Dear TC members,

as agreed in the last call, below are a few examples that use namespace 
prefixes in attribute values.

The I think the most important one is the W3C "CURIE Syntax 1.0" 
specification:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-curie-20080506

It is a last call working draft and I don't think it will get a 
"Recommendation" early enough to be used in ODF 1.2. But I think we 
should consider to replace the existing usages of QNAMEs (we call them 
namespacesTokens), in attribute values in the ODF 1.2 specification with 
CURIEs for ODF 1.3.

Another example is the XSLT specification. It uses QNAMEs for multiple 
purposes:

http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xslt-19991116#qname

One example where QNAMEs are used in XSLT are extension functions:

http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xslt-19991116#section-Extension-Functions

Best regards

Michael


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