[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Namespace Comments (and dtd encoding)
> The point is - I think - that the DTD parser is completely dumb. It doesn't > care about colons (except to recognise that they are legal). I assume - > though I haven't tried it - that this DTD will validate the example with > any of the current parsers. My first reaction was that it was dumb, too, but at some point, it's got to get smart. That is, it needs to resolve the prefixes in the DTD to determine what elements are being defined. As far as I can see, the new spec does not define when this occurs. The only relevant information I can find is that it specifically omits the 'Prefix Declared' constraint from the DTD productions ([12]-[17]). In the worst possible case, you would have to resolve the DTD prefixes every time there is a change in namespace declarations. Not only is this extremely ugly, it would lead to abuse such as the following, where the second A is in a different namespace than the first A and both A's are declared with a single element declaration: <!DOCTYPE A [ <!ELEMENT foo:A (B)> <!ELEMENT B (#PCDATA, foo:A)*> <!ATTLIST A xmlns:foo CDATA #IMPLIED> <!ATTLIST B xmlns:foo CDATA #IMPLIED> ]> <foo:A xmlns:foo="[first URI]"> <B xmlns:foo="[second URI]"> <foo:A> <B>asdf</B> </foo:A> </B> </foo:A> A more reasonable solution might be a namespace constraint that says that all DTD prefixes must be declared on the root element. However, without thinking this through too carefully, I suspect you lose a good deal of flexibility. Could someone in the know comment on how this is supposed to be solved, or point us to the relevant portion of the spec in case we're missing something obvious? Thanks. -- Ron Bourret 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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