Dawid Weiss reported a version of this bug involving Xindice earlier today. Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronald Bourret" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jeff Greif" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 12:27 PM Subject: Re: [xml-dev] attributes with same name and different prefix
> This is legal. If Xerces complains, it's a bug. > > Note that "src", when used as an attribute name (src="bar") is not a > namespace prefix. In order to be a namespace prefix, it would have to be > followed by a colon and a local name -- for example, src:attrname or > even src:src. > > -- Ron > > > Jeff Greif wrote: > > > > Is this illegal (to have two attributes with same name and different > > prefixes, one of them specifying a namespace prefix association): > > > > <foo src="bar" xmlns:src="some-uri" /> > > > > MSXML accepts it without problem, but I've been told that several > > versions of Xerces complains. > >
