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Pavel Velikhov wrote: > Well, theoretically they are pretty serious problems. If you want to > take a union of DTDs, > say when integrating two XML databases, you might end up with a DTD that > allows a lot of > junk elements, while the original DTDs were strict enought. In the > database setting, when > the DTDs are used as database schemas, this leads to all sorts of > problems. Would you not use namespaces to distinguish the fragments originating from the two structures? I would have thought this was a natural use for them - the simple disambiguation of names so as to prevent clashes. I wouldn't care that I have more elements than I need because a:foo and b:foo have identical content models, because it would all have been generated anyway. Could you provide an example of a DTD being required to allow junk elements? Am I missing something? -- Regards, Marcus Carr email: mrc@a... ___________________________________________________________________ Allette Systems (Australia) www: http://www.allette.com.au ___________________________________________________________________ "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Einstein 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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