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> They also let you say that C is both an A and a B. As A and B can have > different definitions, C therefore may have multiple definitions. > > There are plenty of variations on this theme, of course, but the basic > point is that anything, even things uniquely identified, may of course have > multiple definitions. Those multiple definitions may not even be known to a > given user, or even to the designer of a schema/DTD, but they're still > 'lurking' out there. > > An HTML p element is both a strict:p and a transitional:p - both > definitions are perfectly acceptable. Is there a good reason to prefer > strict:p and transitional:p to html:p? I still haven't heard any. Seems like the difference between a conjunction and a disjunction. In your architectures example, C is an A *and* a B, just like Ronald Reagan is a former actor *and* a former president. html:p can't be a strict:p *and* a transitional:p unless they are the same thing. For what it's worth, I think they are (they only appear to be different because we don't yet have an effective mechanism for expressing how a single element type can have two different (but related) content models in different contexts), and I agree 100% with you on the namespace issue. I was just bothered by your analogy to architectures. Matt 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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