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

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

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 :-)

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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.
>>
>> 					Jirka
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