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Re: Do you or Dont you buy Tim Bray's Namespace Validation Algorithm?

• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan@t...>
• To: Mark Tucker <mct@f...>
• Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 16:37:55 -0400

At 02:53 PM 9/10/98 -0500, Mark Tucker wrote:
>
>Wait, People, 
>
>	DO YOU OR DONT YOU BUY TIM BRAY'S ALGORITHM for
>	DTD validation in the face of Namespaces:

Sure. As long as you handle the prefixes in both the document and the dtd
before validation, it works. In other words, the five step algorithm works,
but it implies a little more than this short summary statement:
	
>	    "Re-write the document instance with consistent Prefixes
>	     then do a normal DTD validatation."

I also disagree somewhat with the following:

>	I don't see anything kludgy in it. (modulo my preference to
>        use expanded names directly in the processor's symbol table.)

Well, it's the least kludgy hack we have available to us until schemas can
handle namespace mapping. It's the way I would handle it in my applications.

Jonathan
 
jonathan@t...
Texcel Research
http://www.texcel.no

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