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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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