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Richard L. Goerwitz wrote: > Maybe I misunderstand, but as far as I can see, namespaces won't help > you, either. Why? Because even if you can refer to, say, your two TITLE > elements by different prefixes, you'll still have to declare the prefixed > elements in the DTD as if they were atomic element names. > > Namespaces, in other words, don't solve your problem. They may make it > worse, in fact, because you have to know what prefixes you are going to > declare in a given document to be able to rewrite your DTD to work with > that document. > > There was a furor two or three months ago on this list about namespaces > breaking validation. That furor died down when the namespace spec became > an official recommendation (a done deal, in other words). You are correct. In today's environment (namespace-unaware parsers and no way to associate prefixes and URIs in the DTD), you must use the same prefixes in the DTD and the document for validation to work. I didn't state this because it was stated repeatedly during the aforementioned furor, which I sincerely hope this thread won't reignite. -- Ron Bourret xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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