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David Brownell writes: > > David> 1. Simply ignore them, and require the XML application to do > > David> the work (all of the necessary information is passed on by > > David> SAX). > > Actually, not it isn't. SAX doesn't say where the DTD got parsed, so > layers (library, application) over SAX can't enforce the rule that > all namespace PIs must occur before the DTD. The W3C confidentiality rules won't allow me to answer this point right now. > The really sticky bit is that namespaces effictively modify the grammar > of XML so that only some names may be qualified (no entities/notations). > That effectively precludes any layered implementation over SAX, since > some entity declarations would need to be rejected during parsing (as > WF errors: SAX fatalError callbacks). As far as I understand, there is no intention to forbid colons in these names; rather, their meaning is unspecified, and they remain deprecated (as they are in the XML 1.0 spec). All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/ 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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