Final word on xmlns "error"

[Sam Hunting <shunting@ecomxml.com>]

Whether or not TP needs to support the semantic of an xmlns attribute in a
DTD, it is not a syntactic error. The error thrown by XML Authority is the
result of a known bug.

Sam

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brandon Perkins" <brandon@extensibility.com>
To: <shunting@ecomxml.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 12:52 PM
Subject: RE: Support_Request


> Hello,
>
> Thanks for your feedback on XML Authority.  What you have reported is a
> known bug that has already been resolved for the next release of
Authority.
> I ran your sample code through a recent build for internal use and
> everything validates properly.  I assure you that the next version will
> support this usage.  In the meantime, I appreciate your patience as we
await
> XML Authority 2.0.  If you have any further questions or comments, please
> feel free to contact me directly and I will be happy to help you in any
way
> that I can.
>
> Brandon
>
> Brandon Perkins
> Systems Engineer  |  TIBCO Extensibility
> Office: 919-969-6500 x6555
> Fax:    919-960-2572
> E-mail: bperkins@tibco.com  |  brandonp@tibco.com
> ____________________________

> From: shunting@ecomxml.com
> To: bugs@extensibility.com
> Subject: Support_Request
>
> product: XML_Authority
> submit: Submit
> description: XML Authority throws error with valid DTD

>   This declaration:
>
>      <!ATTLIST TPA xmlns CDATA #IMPLIED>
>
>   throws this error:
>
>       An attribute named "xmlns" should not be
>       declared
>
>   This is not an error -- the ATTLIST declaration is valid XML 1.0, since
> DTD validation is not required to be namespace aware.
>
>  Even a namespace aware processor should permit it, however -- this is a
> default namespace declaration with an empty value, which the Namespace
spec
> permits.
>
>   Thanks in advance.
> platform_version: NT 4
> severity: showstopper
>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin W Sachs/Watson/IBM" <mwsachs@us.ibm.com>
To: "Farrukh Najmi" <Farrukh.Najmi@east.sun.com>
Cc: "Krishna Sankar" <ksankar@cisco.com>; "ebXML-Regrep"
<ebxml-regrep@lists.ebxml.org>; <ebxml-tp@lists.ebxml.org>
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: TPA has attribute named "xmlns"


>
> The xmlns attribute in tpaML 1.0.6 is only for use with XML Schema.  It
> should be removed or commented out for use with a DTD.  Since this is the
> tpaML 1.0.6 DTD rather than output from the TP team, the TP team will give
> it due consideration at the appropriate time.
>
> Regards,
> Marty
>
>
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>
> Farrukh Najmi <Farrukh.Najmi@east.sun.com> on 10/02/2000 10:22:23 AM
>
> To:   Krishna Sankar <ksankar@cisco.com>
> cc:   ebXML-Regrep <ebxml-regrep@lists.ebxml.org>,
>       "ebxml-tp@lists.ebxml.org" <ebxml-tp@lists.ebxml.org>
> Subject:  Re: TPA has attribute named "xmlns"
>
>
>
> Thanks Krishna for the errors. I too had found the TPAML error but since
it
> is not my DTD I
> did not fix it. I will copy the TP group on this issue so they can log it
> for future
> consideration.
>
> The other error was a cut and paste error that I will fix in the next rev.
>
> --
>
> Regards,
> Farrukh
>
>
> Krishna Sankar wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >         I was going thru the regrep DTDs and has a couple of minor/silly
> questions
> > :
> >
> >         1.      In the regrep DTDs, (tpa_1_0_6.dtd and
> RegisterPartyRequest.dtd) the TPA
> > element has an attribute xmlns which gives error while validating. The
> error
> > is " An attribute named "xmlns" should not be declared". Should we
change
> > the name of the attribute to something else ?
> >
> >         2.      There is one edit error in the
> AutomotiveClassification.xml : missing a
> > "<" in Line 21.
> >
> >         cheers
>
> --
> Regards,
> Farrukh
>
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