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At 07:26 31/08/1998, John Cowan wrote: | Steve Dahl scripsit: | | > From that, I inferred that prefixes are assumed to lack either | > uniqueness or persistence (or both), or else they could have been used | > as the namespace name to begin with. This means that it's not impossible | > that I might have a collision between two different Namespaces being | > associated with the same prefix. In that case, what would I need to do | > if I wanted to mix element types from two different DTDs that had the | > same prefix but which are intended to be bound to different Namespaces? | Learn to relax and live without DTDs. The new namespace proposal | makes them useless anyway, so people are now trying to develop | various replacements for them. Doesn't this statement make people scared?!? First off, I still remember Tim Bray's statement at the Sydney XML conference last year, to the effect that he was worried that having XML without DTDs was going to cause a lot of problems down the track. More significantly to me, I _want_ DTDs. The whole point to me, and to a whole lot of other people, is that SGML/XML enforces consistency of structure. You need a DTD to ensure that. So, great, we can send a whole lot of unstructured tags (as long as they are well-formed) about the place. What does this do for us? We end up with a whole lot of documents that are "XML", that cannot be converted, published, validated or anything else that requires structure, because we don't have a DTD. Instant legacy data! Doesn't this worry _anyone_? Apologies for the rant, James ------------------------- James Robertson Step Two Designs Pty Ltd SGML, XML & HTML Consultancy http://www.steptwo.com.au/ jamesr@s... "Beyond the Idea" ACN 081 019 623 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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