Re: [office] Namespace prefixes in attribute values

["Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com>]

It's a good thing to avoid, because prefixes
are of course not themselves significant, and software can change
the actual prefixes, and sometimes does.

An attribute value declared in a W3C XML Schema to be a QName
or a list of QNames may well have prefixes changed inside it
automatically, as necessary (e.g. XQuery and XSLT 2 support this
idea), but of course most software isnt' Schema-aware.

Above from a knowledgable source in W3C


On which basis I'd advise against QNAMES in attribute values

regards


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