210783 - xmlns atributes hidden by style sheet, making RDF unreadable

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 175946

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Gus Heck]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

The style sheet for xml documents seems to be hiding the xmlns attribute. This
attribute is extremely important when trying to visually inspect RDF. This is
particularly true of rdf such as that in the example where they have defined
xmlns  a bazillion times.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Browse to the above link
2. Be very puzzled
3. View the source and sigh in exasperation

Actual Results:  
No xmlns atributes appear when viewed with the main browser window, but view
source reveals them to be present

Expected Results:  
displayed the xmlns attribute like any other.

Don't know if I go the component right but you folks should know something about
this at least...

I'm sure someone decided that there was no usefull information in xmlns when
viewing xml and decided to pretty things up by dropping it. But this assumption
assumes that the xml has sensible qnames, that have natural language meaning
enough to understand or recognize them. 

I suspect that the example is machine generated however, and so all useful
information is in the xmlns not the qname. (in this case every single name space
is ns0: --- hardly enlightening)

As RDF, generated RDF and generated xml of other sorts is likely to increase, I
suggest that no attributes of any sort should be hidden exept perhaps on an
alternate style sheet. If someone is viewing xml as collapsable trees they want
to see what the xml says :)

Comment 1

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 175946 ***