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Re: Come On, DTD, Come On! Thoughts on DSDL Part 9

• To: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Subject: Re: Come On, DTD, Come On! Thoughts on DSDL Part 9
• From: Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@r...>
• Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 07:00:19 -0700
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• References: <200206131350.JAA11993@m...>

John Cowan wrote:

> Well, that seems like boring and error-prone redundancy.  If all of
> your 100 elements are in the same space, do you really want to
> declare each and every one as X:foo, X:bar, and X:baz?  No, say I!

I can live with that, too.

> <!NAMESPACE #DEFAULT "urn:x-foo:bar"> is the way to go.
> 
> BTW, with or without quotes?  I say with, despite the redundancy.

Are spaces legal in URI syntax? I can't remember. If so, with the
quotes. It's clearer that way.

-- Ron

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