I have been going down into a bit of a rabbit hole trying to figure out
why the namespace is not getting set up properly on certain attributes.
At one stage, I thought the issue might have been around here where
attributes were being adjusted (it is not). I started adding spec
comments to understand what was happening, and by the time I realised it
wasn't in this place, I was already in too deep!
Add a whole bunch of spec comments, and leave one or two minor FIXME's
where the spec seems to have changed since this was originally
implemented.