Re: [xml] Incorrect processing of xmlns declarations?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:56:15PM +0000, Matthew Burgess wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm using libxml2-2.6.7 with this small XML document:
>
> --- ns.xml ---
>
> <!DOCTYPE para PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3CR3//EN" 
>   "http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.3CR3/docbookx.dtd";>
> <para xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude";>Test</para>
>
> --- ns.xml ---
>
> To me this should just be declaring an XML Namespace.  However, xmllint
> seems to think it's an attribute:
>
> ---
> matthew localhost $ xmllint --valid ns.xml
> ns.xml:3: element para: validity error : No declaration for attribute
> xmlns:xi of element para Test
> ---
>
> It looks at first glance like a bug, but I thought I'd get confirmation
> of that before going to bugzilla with it.

  DTD don't know about namespace, all namespace declaration are an attribute
and must be declared as such. This is not a bug, this is conformance to specs.

Daniel

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