Re: [docbook] DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 20 May 2003

[Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>]

At 13:59 2003 05 20 -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:
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>| DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 20 May 2003
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>|      705885 Add NS attribute to SGMLTAG
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>No dissent.
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>Processing expectations: none. This is for semantic markup. One could
>have the prefix provided automatically through a stylesheet.
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>What should we call the attribute? 
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>Norm notes that "ns" is the name of the attribute in RELAX NG.
>XSLT uses "namespace".
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>We'll add "namespace" as a CDATA attribute.
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>Accepted. 

There may be no processing expections, but somewhere we have to
say what this attribute is expected to represent:  the namespace
name.  Given that the name ("namespace") is unclear, I'd like it
recorded that the value of this attribute is expected to be a
namespace name.

paul