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Tim Bray writes: > At 11:30 AM 9/10/98 -0500, Mark Tucker wrote: > >***************************************** > > Camp1 : Most of this Newsgroup > >***************************************** > > Documents with Namespaces can be validated provided > > the prefix abbreviations are used consistently. > > I don't think that too many people feel this way. I hope not, > because the namespace draft makes it 100% clear that the prefix in > and of itself has no meaning, and is just a short-form stand-in to > a URI. People are fumbling around because they're mixing up validation and processing. If we're talking about DTD validation (as the original message was), then this camp is correct: as defined in the XML 1.0 REC, DTD validation is concerned entirely with surface names and can have no knowledge of the underlying namespace URI. Namespace-aware XML *processing*, on the other hand, must ignore the prefix and work with the namespace URI, as explained in the Namespaces WD. When the XML Schema WG finishes its work, we should have a standard way to do namespace-aware validation; in the mean time, XML 1.0 DTDs is all we have. 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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