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

[Jirka Kosek <jirka at kosek dot cz>]

Norman Walsh wrote:

> | But SGML has no namespaces AFAIK. I think instead of
> |    <sgmltag namespace="http://foobar";>...
> | I'd like to see
> |    <xmltag namespace="http://foobar";>...
> | or
> |    <elementname namespace="http://foobar";>...
>
> Yes, we should have added xmltag or renamed sgmltag years ago. But we
> didn't. And that's a separate RFE :-)

I was reading XML-REC yesterday to refresh it in my memory and it 
reminded me this "xmltag" issue...

Unfortunatelly, "xmltag" is not valid name for element according to the 
XML Recommendation:

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml.html#sec-common-syn

Definition: A Name is a token beginning with a letter or one of a few 
punctuation characters, and continuing with letters, digits, hyphens, 
underscores, colons, or full stops, together known as name characters.] 
Names beginning with the string "xml", or any string which would match 
(('X'|'x') ('M'|'m') ('L'|'l')), are reserved for standardization in 
this or future versions of this specification

And Name token is one used in productin rule which constructs element's 
start tag and empty elements:

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml.html#NT-STag

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml.html#NT-EmptyElemTag

I'm personally OK with "sgmltag" element name, but if there is need for 
something more XML related, different name must be chosen: mltag, 
tagxml, tag?

					Jirka

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