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From: "Jonathan Borden" <jborden@m...>
> This applies to both namespace and DTDs. Perhaps if anyone is really
> interested in keeping DTDs alive, they might publish such a proposal to fix
> the problem, accompanied by some software that implements the proposal. Then
> we would be able to see if it flies.
Actually, it does not even need any change in DTD syntax AFAIK.
It just needs a change in the way that validation is performed using DTDs.
The validator needs to understand that given
<!ATTLIST x xmlns CDATA "123">
or
<!ATTLIST x xmlns CDATA #FIXED "123">
etc. that an instance with
<y:x xmlns:y="123">
is correct.
You would also need the rule that an unprefixed element name
could only be declared once per DTD, which is not particularly
objectionable.
Cheers
Rick Jelliffe
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