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Re: [dsdl-comment] Re: DSDL part 9: new namespace declarations

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• Subject: Re: [dsdl-comment] Re: DSDL part 9: new namespace declarations not needed as part
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 11:59:30 -0400 (EDT)
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• In-reply-to: <3D0A1004.52169B79@s...> from "james anderson" at Jun 14, 2002 05:47:21 PM

james anderson scripsit:

> In whatever grade of esteem one may hold the Namespaces in XML
> recommentation, it specifies that a conforming document may contain
> lexically identical qualified names which identify more than one universal
> name depending on context as well as lexically distinct qualified names
> which identify the same universal name - the synonymy/homography issue.
> 
> If DSDL chooses to ratify a namespace declaration form which exhibits
> indefinite scope, it must also either specify that such documents are
> non-conformant, or specify that such documents are not permitted to
> depend on attribute default values for namespace declarations, but must
> include all namespace declarations in the document entity.

More precisely: documents may not depend on attribute defaulting information
*in the validation DTD* to supply namespace declarations.  This suits me:
attribute defaulting is the proper business of the native (DOCTYPE) DTD.
When a document has been parsed, all information is already in hand to
make namespace assignments.

Synonymy/homography itself is no problem.  The following document is
namespace-well-formed:

<foo:root xmlns:foo="urn:x-one">
  <bar:a xmlns:bar="urn:x-one"/>
  <foo:a xmlns:foo="urn:x-two"/>
</foo:root>

and is valid against the following eDTD:

<!NAMESPACE one "urn:x-one">
<!NAMESPACE two "urn:x-two">
<!ELEMENT one:root (one:a, two:a)>
<!ELEMENT one:a EMPTY>
<!ELEMENT two:a EMPTY>

since the prefixes in the validation DTD have nothing to do with those
used in the instance; only the universal names are the same.

-- 
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I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen,    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith.  --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_

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