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[David Megginson] > "namespace:gi" element type names are unsuitable for several reasons: [...] > Why are people worried about writing specs to solve a problem that > already has good, working, available solutions? The problem (as I see it) is not one of including pieces of existing documents, nor of structural validation. The main reason for namespaces is semantic inheritance. I want to write a scientific research paper quickly. HTML has the overall document structure and components that I need; MathML has equations; CML has chemical formulæ. I should be able to say that I'm using those things, associate stylesheets, and have my browser know that <html:a> should be styled with the "a" rule from the HTML stylesheet. It should be *possible* to create a DTD to which such a document complies, but I am not as interested in automatic validation of a namespace document. The interrelational issues are, I think, too complex to solve; in the example above, I would need to change the text-containing HTML elements' content models to include chemical and mathematical markup, and maybe allow HTML markup in MathML theorems. Pushing selected information into the content models is too ugly. -Chris -- <!NOTATION SGML.Geek PUBLIC "-//Anonymous//NOTATION SGML Geek//EN"> <!ENTITY crism PUBLIC "-//O'Reilly//NONSGML Christopher R. Maden//EN" "<URL>http://www.oreilly.com/people/staff/crism/ <TEL>+1.617.499.7487 <USMAIL>90 Sherman Street, Cambridge, MA 02140 USA" NDATA SGML.Geek> xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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