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RE: Namespace Comments (and dtd encoding)

• From: Istvan Cseri <istvanc@m...>
• To: 'james anderson' <James.Anderson@m...>, Charles Frankston <cfranks@m...>
• Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 10:34:51 -0700

Just a short comment on parsing. Yes, XML could be simpler to parse. I think
it makes a lot of sense though to fall back to existing parsing behavior -
which the new XMLNS attribute is doing - rather to add more to the already
'baroque' parsing rules, right ?

Istvan

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	james anderson [SMTP:James.Anderson@m...]
> Sent:	Wednesday, August 05, 1998 3:20 AM
> To:	Charles Frankston
> Cc:	xml-dev@i...
> Subject:	Re: Namespace Comments (and dtd encoding)
> 
> Charles Frankston wrote:
> > 
> > Mr. Anderson --
> > 
> > To answer the first of your many questions:
> > 
> > Yes, a syntax virtually identical to yours, that allowed multiple
> namespace
> > declarations in a single attribute was considered.  The resulting
> syntactic
> > problems swayed the WG away from that approach.  (Some of the issues --
> you
> > now need an internal quoting mechanism, or a careful proscription on the
> > legal characters in a URI, in order to allow proper separation of the
> pairs.
> > It gets even messier to come up with a syntax to declare the default
> > prefix.)
> 
> xml is already sufficiently baroque, that i can only presume that this was
> not
> the deciding argument. :)
> 
> > 
> > I couldn't understand most of the rest of your questions.
> 
> i surmise (from the timestamp on your message) that you are actually
> refering
> here to my other posting re dtd encoding...
> 
> if the questions were not understandable, then i must have misunderstood
> something basic about the draft's intentions. let my try again by simply
> posing the open question:
> 
> could someone please post a "complete document" (that is including a dtd)
> for
> the third example in section 5 of the draft (the one with the root element
> "bk:book")?
> 
> thanks.
> 
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