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Paul Prescod: >This is a serious problem inherited from SGML. It is my opinion that >instead of namespace declarations being done through attributes they >should have been just another form of PI-based declaration. Then in >version 2.0 of XML, all declarations should have been made "localizable." >In particular, there should be a way to declare internal text entities, >unparsed entities and attribute defaults locally. Well this is actually where my thinking has been going. I've been thinking about whether localizable declarations might be achievable using an *attribute* mechanism following on from how namespaces ended up. Eg <Root> ... <SomeElement xmldecl="local-decl.pen"> <!-- markup declarations in local-decl.pen apply --> </SomeElement> ... </Root> The xmldecl attribute takes the value of the URI of an external parameter entity. To avoid name clashes, it might be an idea to have xmldecl:foo="local-decl.pen" and then qualify entities with the prefix foo (ie &foo:SomeEntity;) James -- James Tauber / jtauber@j... / www.jtauber.com Associate Researcher, Electronic Commerce Network Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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