My only suggestion, for what it's worth, would be to allow for the
declaration (and please don't overinterpret that word ;-) ) of the 'root'
namespace for a document. That seems a reasonable distinction to make,
although you'd then have to define how such a statement interacts with
content-type declarations such as application/xml+mathml (would that, in
some twisted way, imply a default 'root'-level namespace, and if so,
how?).
Ian
(who is very loopy after a long day at work cut off from the
surrealistic world of xml-dev)
On 21 Jan 2002, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
I'm happy to announce the availability of an Internet-Draft,
Registration of xmlns Media Feature Tag, which:
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registers a media feature tag 'xmlns', per RFC 2506,
intended for use in a Content-features header to indicate
the XML namespaces used in an XML document. This information
augments MIME content-type information, providing a finer granularity
of content description for XML documents.
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http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-stlaurent-feature-xmlns-00.txt
This is different work from the XML Media Types work done in RFC 3023,
but this list seems the most appropriate place to discuss it.
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Simon St.Laurent
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