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Ronald Bourret wrote: > ... > If you are stating that the algorithm doesn't work because you have to > inspect the entire document first, that's a circular argument. The > algorithm clearly states that the document must be preprocessed, so you > can't use that as an argument against it working. (Note that such > preprocessing is necessary to use the algorithm with current parsers. This > prefix substitution could be done at parse time by a specialized parser.) > this is the method used by the processor described earlier. (http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/9812/0276.html) > > > Well, tedious enough to make it unlikely that anyone will use > > > validation on documents that utilize namespaces. It is hard. > > > It is too hard. And for that reason, among others, Veo has > > > vociferously opposed "Namespaces in XML". > > This might be true, although it is easy enough to write a tool that did the > preprocessing necessary for this to work with the current batch of parsers. the trivial demonstration is the reserialization in the cited note. > In the long run, these questions disappear anyway, as the current schema > proposals can declare which namespace a given element or attribute belongs > to, thus solving the problem of no namespace declarations in the DTD. > schemas have many arguments in their favour, but are not strictly necessary in order to accomplish this. 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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