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Re: Namespaces: prefixes vs. no prefixes

  • From: John Cowan <cowan@l...>
  • To: XML Dev <xml-dev@i...>
  • Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 10:14:35 -0400

namespaces in vs 2005
Murray Altheim wrote:

> If a namespace-aware processor reads an unqualified external DTD and has
> access to the proper prefix (ie., the ns declaration occurs before the
> parser begins reading the DTD), then theoretically it could modify the DTD
> on the fly to grok the qualified document instance. I've been playing with
> this idea for several weeks. It relies on the ability of the parser to
> have access to the ns declaration before the DTD.

The current namespace draft *requires* that all namespace declarations
appear before the DOCTYPE declaration, and therefore before the
DTD (internal or external) is read.  See clause 2.2, sentence 1.

-- 
John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@c...
	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)

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