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Re: Namespace declaration versus attribute

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• Subject: Re: Namespace declaration versus attribute
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 12:50:51 -0400
• In-reply-to: <20020820164721.GA9797@t...>

Amy Lewis writes:
> That seems to make sense, but isn't true in my experience.  I haven't
> used the MS parser; I've used various parsers for Java and maybe a
> couple for Perl and Python and the like.
> 
> In those parsers, if namespace recognition is turned on, a namespaced
> instance can be validated against a namespace-less (by definition)
> DTD. Mixing namespaces is pretty impossible, but otherwise it works
> fine. Both of the given examples were validated.  Possibly I'm using
> different parsers, or configuring them differently, though, than what
> you've seen.

I'd have to call those some seriously buggy parsers, if they're
validating.  I don't see anything in Namespaces in XML which
countenances that behavior.  Given that xml:lang and xml:space have to
be declared for use in valid documents, I don't see much precedent
either.



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