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At 12:04 AM -0800 1/22/02, Ronald Bourret wrote: >> including a link to a relevant schema, > >This won't happen. The RDDL document for XHTML cannot reasonably be >expected to contain pointers to all the schemas that use XHTML. > Again the problem is the XHTML schema, not the RDDL document. If the XHTML schema is written in such a way that it says "You can insert any element from any non-XHTML namespace here" then you most certainly can do this. I do not happen to know whether or not the XHTML schema is so designed, though a quick search for xs:any in the schemas implementation of XHTML modularization suggests that it does not. >> and the schema language and the schemas themselves >> are designed to allow these sorts of multiple namespace documents. >> (The last point is the biggest obstacle in practice.) > >I don't see why the last point is the obstacle. I thought that all >schema languages already allowed this. Or am I missing something here? > DTDs don't really allow this, but the real practical obstacle is whether or not the individual schemas are designed to allow this. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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