<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ian Jacobs</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ij@w3.org">ij@w3.org</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:27 PM<br>
Subject: Namespaces in XML 1.0 (Third Edition) is a W3C Recommendation<br>To: W3C Members <<a href="mailto:w3c-ac-forum@w3.org">w3c-ac-forum@w3.org</a>><br><br><br>Dear Advisory Committee Representative,<br>
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It is my pleasure to announce that Namespaces in XML 1.0 (Third Edition) has been published as a W3C Recommendation, superseding the Second Edition:<br>
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Namespaces in XML 1.0 (Third Edition)<br>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-xml-names-20091208/" target="_blank">http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-xml-names-20091208/</a><br>
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All Members who responded to the Call for Review [1] of the Proposed Edited Recommendations supported the publication of this specification as a W3C Recommendation.<br>
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This edition includes no substantive changes, but among the accumulated errata which it incorporates is one of particular importance, which removes an incompatibility with the Fifth Edition of the XML 1.0 specification [2] itself.<br>
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W3C would like to thank the XML Core Working Group [3] for their efforts to ensure the continuing utility of XML.<br>
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For Philippe Le Hégaret, on behalf of Tim Berners-Lee, Director;<br>
Ian Jacobs, Head of W3C Communications<br>
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[1] <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2009JulSep/0017.html" target="_blank">http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2009JulSep/0017.html</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xml-20081126/" target="_blank">http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xml-20081126/</a><br>
[3] <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/Core/" target="_blank">http://www.w3.org/XML/Core/</a><br>
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Disposition of Comments<br>
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Several minor editorial improvements were made to the Proposed Edited Recommendation as a result of suggestions received from outside the W3C during the review period, A complete record of the comments received and their disposition is available [4].<br>
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One request for a change was not agreed to by the Working Group, and as the person making the request was not satisfied with the reasons given by the Working Group for their decision, the issue was considered carefully at the Transition review.<br>
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The request was to change the presentation of one piece of normative prose, which requires namespace names to be URI references, from a simple statement to that effect in the body of the document, to an explicitly called-out Namespace Constraint.<br>
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At the Transition review the Working Group's decision not to act now on this request was upheld, even though it might appear to be a simple editorial change, for two reasons:<br>
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1) Unlike all the existing Namespace Constraints, the proposed new<br>
one would apply only to documents, not to processors, and so a<br>
new class of Constraint would be required or the potential for<br>
confusion would be increased, rather than, as the original<br>
request intended, decreased;<br>
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2) There are other normative conformance statements in the document<br>
which are not presented as Namespace Constraints: there is a<br>
risk that making the proposed change without also changing all<br>
of them would leave their status unclear. In this context it<br>
should be noted that the prose in question has been present in<br>
the specification from its First Edition.<br>
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The Working Group has agreed to raise an issue [5] on the question of this request in particular, and the matter of normative statements outside Namespace Constraints in general.<br>
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[4] <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/Group/2009/10/disposition.html" target="_blank">http://www.w3.org/XML/Group/2009/10/disposition.html</a> [Member-only]<br>
[5] <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/Group/2001/05/proposed-xml-names-errata#NPE33" target="_blank">http://www.w3.org/XML/Group/2001/05/proposed-xml-names-errata#NPE33</a><br>
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Namespaces in XML 1.0 (Third Edition)<br>
W3C Recommendation 8 December 2009<br>
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This version:<br>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-xml-names-20091208/" target="_blank">http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-xml-names-20091208/</a><br>
Latest version:<br>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names/" target="_blank">http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names/</a><br>
Previous versions:<br>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-names-20060816/" target="_blank">http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-names-20060816/</a><br>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PER-xml-names-20090806/" target="_blank">http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PER-xml-names-20090806/</a><br>
Editors:<br>
Tim Bray, Textuality <<a href="mailto:tbray@textuality.com" target="_blank">tbray@textuality.com</a>><br>
Dave Hollander, Contivo, Inc. <<a href="mailto:dmh@contivo.com" target="_blank">dmh@contivo.com</a>><br>
Andrew Layman, Microsoft <<a href="mailto:andrewl@microsoft.com" target="_blank">andrewl@microsoft.com</a>><br>
Richard Tobin, University of Edinburgh and Markup Technology Ltd<br>
<<a href="mailto:richard@inf.ed.ac.uk" target="_blank">richard@inf.ed.ac.uk</a>><br>
Henry S. Thompson, University of Edinburgh and W3C <<a href="mailto:ht@w3.org" target="_blank">ht@w3.org</a>> -<br>
Third Edition<br>
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Abstract<br>
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XML namespaces provide a simple method for qualifying element and<br>
attribute names used in Extensible Markup Language documents by<br>
associating them with namespaces identified by URI references.<br>
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Status of this Document (minus boilerplate)<br>
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This document is a product of the XML Core Working Group as part of<br>
the W3C XML Activity. The English version of this specification is<br>
the only normative version. However, for translations of this<br>
document, see<br>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2003/03/Translations/byTechnology?technology=xml-names" target="_blank">http://www.w3.org/2003/03/Translations/byTechnology?technology=xml-names</a><br>
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Known implementations are documented in the Namespaces 1.1<br>
implementation report (all known Namespaces 1.1 implementations also<br>
support Namespaces 1.0) . A test suite is also available via the XML<br>
Test Suite page.<br>
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This third edition incorporates all known errata as of the publication<br>
date. It supersedes the previous edition of 16 August 2006.<br>
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This edition has been widely reviewed. Only minor editorial changes<br>
have been made since the 6 August 2009 Proposed Edited Recommendation.<br>
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Please report errors in this document to <a href="mailto:xml-names-editor@w3.org" target="_blank">xml-names-editor@w3.org</a>;<br>
public archives are available. The errata list for this document is<br>
available at <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2009/xml-names-errata" target="_blank">http://www.w3.org/XML/2009/xml-names-errata</a> .<br>
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This document has been reviewed by W3C Members, by software<br>
developers, and by other W3C groups and interested parties, and is<br>
endorsed by the Director as a W3C Recommendation. It is a stable<br>
document and may be used as reference material or cited from another<br>
document. W3C's role in making the Recommendation is to draw attention<br>
to the specification and to promote its widespread deployment. This<br>
enhances the functionality and interoperability of the Web.<br>
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