Re: [docbook-tc] Namespace qualified attributes on elements?

[Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net>]

I'm ok with it adding it to CR3. Scott?

Norm, let us know when you have prepared it so we can review it.

Thanks.

Bob

On 8/12/2022 12:40 AM, Norm Tovey-Walsh wrote:

> > Are you referring to allowing attributes that are in a namespace other
> > than the DocBook namespace to appear on DocBook elements? I thought
> > other namespaced attributes did not have to be accounted for in the
> > DocBook schema but were instead validated using NVDL?
> >       
> The DocBook schema doesnât have to validate them, but it must allow
> them. (You can tease apart a document and validate different sections
> with different schemas using NVDL, but I donât think you can validate
> the structure and some attributes with one schema and other attributes
> on the same elements with a different schema.)
>
> Given that you thought it was done with NVDL and I thought it just
> worked, I infer that we both thought it was possible.
>
> Iâm tempted to squeeze it into a 5.2CR3. Lots of vocabularies allow it
> and it doesnât do any harm. (The question came up in relation to a use
> case with a DocBook user.)
>
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