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Ah, my favorite thing to hate about XML <grin>. Seriously, though. I have yet to hear of a single real application that needs element level prefix declarations. Not one! The PI was just fine for 99.99% of applications. The 0.01% should simply not use XML (or may need an additional layer, such as AF or a schema processor). Element declared namespaces is a solution in search of a problem. Unfortunately, namespaces have effectively killed DTD validation. My wish list for namespaces is as follows: 1) The prefix should be set by document author, *not* the DTD author. 2) The FPI should be set by the DTD author. 3) Prefixes should have document scope. 4) Namespaces should be part of XML proper and *not* an add on. 5) Element names should be resolved in the namespace of the nearest ancestor. Until most of these conditions are met, I predict the demise of DTD's. It may be too late already... Best regards, Charles Reitzel >From: james anderson <James.Anderson@m...> >Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 11:49:51 +0100 >Subject: Re: Namespaces and DTDs > >That "REC-xml-names-19990114" does not provide any means to establish >prefix<->uri bindings for a DTD has long been a point of contention. A cursory >search of the archives will bear this out. The decision to eliminate the >combined prefix/uri/dtd binding (the original pi form) was, however, correct, >as the pi form, at least as proposed in "WD-xml-names-19980327", would not >have been sufficient to handle such things as a dtd which needs multiple >prefix bindings or the situation where a given prefix<->uri binding is to >apply to multiple schema sources. > >While it is true that some mechanism is necessary, a form - as discussed below >- - which effected a singular binding would also not have solved the problem. >"Everyone" would seem to be waiting for "schemas".... > >Marc.McDonald@D... wrote: >> >> A simple extension to namespaces could have fixed this problem: >> 1. Allow a DTD to be optionally specified along with the namespace >> prefix and URI >> 2. When an element is prefixed, parse it using the DTD associated with >> the namespace and the given prefix as the default. >> 3. If no DTD is associated with the prefix or not validating, do what >> is done now (ensure element is well-formed). 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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