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RE: External DTD & namespaces

• From: "Borden, Jonathan" <jborden@m...>
• To: "W3C XML Developers" <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 20:30:53 -0500

you can declare a namespace for an element and its children within a DTD
(e.g.):

<!ELEMENT message ((ANY)*|BODY)>
<!ATTLIST message xmlns:mime CDATA #FIXED "urn:com:xpository:xmtp">

since the attribute is fixed, the namespace must use the given urn.

Jonathan Borden
JABR
http://jabr.ne.mediaone.net

>
>
> DTDs and namespaces are not fully integrated yet.  You can easily use
> namespace prefixes in your DTDs, much as you show, but you must then be
> careful that your instances use exactly the same namespace prefix.
>
> Hopefully, future work on XML schemas will give you the ability to declare
> namespaces in schemas (DTD being a type of schema) and then you
> can validate
> based on the URI the prefix stands for, not just the literal characters of
> the prefix.  We are not there yet.
>
>
>
> Hello All!
>
> Dummy question:
>
> I want to use namespace prefixes in element declarations of the
> external/internal DTDs.
> For example, I want to define namespace "myns" and use with each DTD
> declaration:
>
> <!ELEMENT myns:point (int, int)>
>
> Where I should put "myns" namespace declaration?
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> All the Best!
> Andy Malakov
>


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