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Re: WD for Namespaces 1.1

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• Subject: Re: WD for Namespaces 1.1
• From: Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@r...>
• Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 00:22:36 -0800
• References: <JIEGINCHMLABHJBIGKBCKEFJEFAA.julian.reschke@g...> <3CAC0AC2.1C142130@a...>

Marcus Carr wrote:
> The change would mean that:
> 
>    DTDs are unable to play with namespaces, so they are not capable of
>    fully supporting the v1.1 recommendation. Ergo, DTDs should be dropped
>    as they have been rendered incomplete and confusing.
> 
> I don't know whether this will be the case, but it seems logical. I also don't
> know whether it would be a good or bad thing - I'm just trying to establish the
> possible impact of the change. Am I the only one who thinks that we risk
> creating an underclass of systems and documents?

I think so. And the underclass already exists, so I don't see the risk.

As I noted elsewhere, if the authors of 1.1 are bothered by the
incompatibility of namespaces and DTDs, they have an alternative to
throwing out DTDs -- making namespaces work with them. While this is
probably too much to hope for, it would be nice.

-- Ron

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