[Zope-dev] SVN: z3c.pt/trunk/TODO.txt

[Laurence Rowe]

Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Malthe Borch wrote:
>> 2008/9/9 Philipp von Weitershausen <philipp at weitershausen.de>:
>>>>> +- Make e.g. <tal:block tal:foo /> and <metal:foo metal:define-macro/>
>>>>> etc.
>>>>> +  work
>>>> Are we sure we want this? It's (afaik) not correct XML;
>>> It's not? How so?
>> If the element belongs to some namespace, then attributes from this
>> namespace should be native to it. But I couldn't find any
>> documentation to support that this is a strict requirement. Perhaps it
>> should be allowed, then.
> 
> As far as I know in XML, attributes without an explicit namespace prefix 
> are not in any namespace at all. Default namespaces don't apply to 
> attributes.

I don't think  this is correct, 
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#scoping-defaulting

"""
A default namespace declaration applies to all unprefixed element names 
within its scope. Default namespace declarations do not apply directly 
to attribute names; the interpretation of unprefixed attributes is 
determined by the element on which they appear.
"""

Laurence