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Here's the problem: We're designing an XML DTD. We want the documents to be valid. We would like to provide for Dublin Core Metadata. One way to do this is: <DC xmlns="DC=http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core"> <DC:Creator>Eric Hellman</DC:Creator> </DC> This declares the nomenclature of "Creator" in an unambiguous way. (xmlns could be declared as a default in the DTD) The problem, is that we have no control over Dublin Core. Dublin Core will get extensions, and we'd rather not revise our dtd every time Dublin Core changed. The second way to do this is the HTML way: <meta name="DC.creator" content="Eric Hellman"> This encapsulates the Dublin core element set from our DTD, but the nomenclature declaration is absent. Could a "namespace" declaration be added to an element to declare the nomenclature for attribute values?: <meta name="DC:Creator" content="Eric Hellman" xmlns="DC=http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core"> Would this new meaning for a namespace declaration be useful? Eric Eric Hellman Openly Informatics, Inc. http://www.openly.com/ Tools for 21st Century Scholarly Publishing 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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