[ZPT] Reason for <script> and <style> exclusion?

[Martijn Pieters]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 01:17:19PM +0000, Alan Kennedy wrote:
> > By the way, in a <tal:block> (or <tal:whatever> ) you
> > don't need to explicitly put every attribute in the tal
> > namespace, you can just do <tal:block replace="blah">
> 
> NB: I have not checked an example to see if this statement 
> is true.
> 
> But IF this is true, then ZPT is not behaving according to 
> the XML namespaces spec, AFAICT.
> 
> Attributes DO NOT inherit the namespace of their parent 
> elements. Instead, their namespace is defined as their 
> parent element.
> 
> Therefore, the following are NOT the same
> 
> 1. <tal:block xmlns:tal="http://" condition="true"/>
> 
> 2. <tal:block xmlns:tal="http://" tal:condition="true"/>
> 
> Specifically, the condition attribute in 1 does NOT belong 
> to the TAL namespace. Instead, it belongs to a namespace 
> which is defined by its parent element (it's hard to find 
> the right wording). The condition attribute in 2 belongs to 
> the TAL namespace.
> 
> Does the current ZPT implementation accept 1, 2, or both?

The parent element of an attribute is the element on which the attribute is
defined; thus, the two examples are the same.

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Martijn Pieters
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