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At 12:40 PM 9/12/1999 -0700, Mark D. Anderson wrote: >[...] >So does this mean that A.2 should be clarified to say that unqualified >attributes should not be assigned the per-element-type partition if it >obtained its namespace through a default namespace? I believe 5.3 and A.2 are both correct and consistent with each other, although I have to admit that the spec originally gave me trouble too. My conclusion was that it is *not* possible to put an attribute in the default namespace. An attribute goes in the per-element namespace unless the attribute explicity has a prefix that assigns it a namespace. >And what is a namespace-aware validator (is there such a thing?) supposed >to do here? If "good" was declared as ><!ATTLIST good a (2|3) 1 3 b CDATA 17> >then which have i defaulted, a global "b", or a "n1:b"? >and is the "a" attribute in violation of the dtd while n1:a is not? >is it in violation because it was not declared or has the wrong value? I had trouble making sense of your ATTLIST declaration, but I don't believe it is possible to assign namespaces to anything but element or attribute instances unless you use ATTLIST to define a default xmlns value for every element. Consider a DTD that contains the following declarations: <!ELEMENT e1 (e3)*> <!ATTLIST e1 xmlns "urn:namespace1"> <!ELEMENT e2 (e3)*> <!ATTLIST e2 xmlns "urn:namespace2"> <!ELEMENT e3 (#PCDATA)> To which namespace does e3 belong? I can only conclude that DTDs and namespaces don't mix. However, I'm believe that the namespaces of the elements and attributes in the following DTD subset is unambiguous and uncontroversial: <!ELEMENT a:e1 (a:e3)*> <!ATTLIST a:e1 xmlns:a "urn:namespace1"> <!ELEMENT b:e2 (a:e3)*> <!ATTLIST b:e2 xmlns:b "urn:namespace2"> <!ELEMENT a:e3 (#PCDATA)> <!ATTLIST a:e3 xmlns:a "urn:namespace1"> -- Joe Lapp (Looking for some good people to help design Senior Engineer and build the Internet's business-to-business webMethods, Inc. XML infrastructure. We are 100% Java.) jlapp@w... http://www.webMethods.com/company/employment 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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