Pavils Jurjans wrote:


> I am developing my own template XML language. For it's special tags I am
> going to use my own namespace, say, "my:". 

my: is not a namespace, it is a prefix that you could associate with a 
namespace but the namespace should look different.

> The XML code that is heavily
> mixed with the template tags, is mostly XHTML. I have question regarding use
> of attributes in the foreign tags:
> 
> For example, I have this markup:
> 
> <my:special value="ABC">
>     <div>Some HTML content here</div>
> </my:special>
> 
> Here I have a tag from "my:" namespace, but within this tag I am using
> "value" attribute from (default?) unnamed namespace. The question is, what
> would be "more correct" way - using
> 
> <my:special value="ABC">....
> 
> or
> 
> <my:special my:value="ABC">
> 
> the "value" attribute in this particular case is consumed solely by
> my:special tag, and not directly parsed into "value" attribute of some html
> tag. The latter approac, using namespace def with attribute name, of course,
> is more ugly, and likes me less than the first. However, I'd certainly like
> to know the "philosofy" behind attribute namespaces within foreigh namespace
> tags.

If you really want to use XHTML then you should use the right namespace 
for those elements like the <div> element e.g.
   <my:special xmlns:my="http://example.com/2004/05/pavel"
               value="ABC">
    <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Some HTML content here</div>
   </my:special>


As for the attributes as long as you don't want to apply one of your 
attributes to elements from a different namespace you don't need to have 
your attributes declared to have a qualified name.


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	Martin Honnen
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