Namespace of xmlns attribute

[Chris Hill <ch...@wolfram.com>]

Xerces 1.4 puts the xmlns attribute in a default namespace declaration
(such as <a xmlns="blah"/>) in the global namespace, like all other 
attributes without a prefix.  I see that a couple other specifications 
place it in the "http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/" namespace, as well as the 
document at http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/.  Does anybody know the what the 
history and current thinking is in this area and what is planned for Xerces 
in the future?

http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/core.html#Namespaces-Considerations
(see Note)

http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset/#infoitem.namespace
(see 6. [namespace attributes])

http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/

Chris


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