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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) 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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