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From: Ann Navarro <ann@w...> >At 02:17 AM 9/17/99 +0800, Rick Jelliffe wrote: > >>that does >>not mean we are accusing the HTML WG of being a conspiracy. > >No, but you're basically suggesting that we're thick. Come on, stop making this into some personal thing. I said " It seems clear that the HTML team have some mental concept of namespaces which exists independently of what the W3C specification actually allows". Perhaps this concept is an improvement; but don't expect anyone to swallow a major, last minute, unexpected use of namespaces that goes against all the discussions at the time and against all public statements since that time. There still has been no justification for it: TB-Ls comment that HTML has three DTDs so should have three namespaces puts the cart before the horse; Andrew Layman's comment that there are definitional schemas and that these set namespaces is undebated and can be proved wrong by the simple example of RDF, which defines a namespace but allows major parts of schemas undefined, notably the GIs (element type names) of second and third tier elements. So if RDF is a legitimate use of namespaces, and if namespaces come from definitional schemas, then the definitional schema does not need to include a specific content model: if can be extended and refined willy nilly. Following this line, the only thing in a schema left ultimately is a list of names. However, it is quite possible for someone to make a list of names, and use some in one DTD and others in another DTD, with no mixing. This is a legitimate use of namespaces in the current spec; again, it shows that there is no nessecary connection between a "definitional schema" and a namespace, unless the definitional schema is a simple list of names (in some format TBA). Rick Jelliffe 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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