[MOBY-dev] BioMOBY namespace and attributes

[Pieter Neerincx]

Hi,

I'm having trouble with an XML parser in combination with a recent  
version of CommonSubs.pm and was wondering what the official rules are  
for applying the BioMOBY namespace (I'm talking about the xmlns thingy  
not the namespace atribute in BioMOBY objects). Therefore I have have  
the following questions:

1. Is the BioMOBY namespace required for BioMOBY object nodes?
2. Is the BioMOBY namespace required for the id, namespace and  
articleName attributes of BioMOBY object nodes?
3. Is the BioMOBY namespace required for the other attributes in  
BioMOBY XML? (for example the queryID attribute of the mobyData node.)

With xmlns:moby='http://www.biomoby.org/moby' and xmlns='http://www.biomoby.org/moby' 
  for the default namespace defined somewhere higher up the tree are  
the following Object objects legal?:

A. <     Object      namespace=''      id=''      articleName=''/>	 
legal:yes/no
B. <moby:Object      namespace=''      id=''      articleName=''/>	 
legal:yes/no
C. <     Object moby:namespace='' moby:id='' moby:articleName=''/>	 
legal:yes/no
D. <moby:Object moby:namespace='' moby:id='' moby:articleName=''/>	 
legal:yes/no

The problem I have is that the default namespace only applies to  
element names, but not to attribute names as per XML spec. Therefore A  
and B are equivalents as are C and D, but moby:articleName is not the  
same attribute as articleName without the moby namespace prefix....

Cheers,

Pi