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>> 3.2 Interaction with Other Namespaces > >why is this needed? >the processor will sit on top of a parser which supports namespace pi's. >if w^3 removes the src attribute, then perhaps. >better would be a parallel mechanism (another pi) since that will be required >anyway by a processor (non-xschema) which wishes to validate the document >against its schema/dtd The processor will sit on top of a parser which supports namespace PIs and (as I understand it) spits out resolved namespace references. The processor needs to be able to determine whether these resolved namespace references match up with the resolved names in the XSchema. Because element names in XSchemas are stored as attribute values, an extra resolution step is required. The namespace element provides the processor with the information to do this, and also makes it easier to cope with situations where prefixes change between the XSchema's creation and the arrival of the document instance to be processed. We could use the normal namespace PI and just force the processor to deal with reading those PIs and processing them, but this seems to confuse the namespaces issues further. (There'd be a namespace for XSC, a namespace for extensions, and a pile of namespaces for the elements of the XSchema. Plausible but messy.) There will be more detail on these issues in Section 4 (conversion to DTDs, where it all goes back into the DTD and PIs) and Section 5. John Cowan wrote a piece June 5 - Re: Namespaces: Biting The Bullet. It should be in the archive someplace. If I'm wrong about this, or if there's a better way, I'd _really_ like to hear it. Please let me know, everyone. Simon St.Laurent Dynamic HTML: A Primer / XML: A Primer / Cookies 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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