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Chris Maden and I have been tossing this one back and forth offlist, and we figured it was time to bring back since neither of us was 100% positive whether something is possible or not. Basically, I was wondering if it would be possible to add namespace parameters to the already colossal parameterization project that is XHTML Modularization. The idea is something like this: -------------------------------------------- <!ENTITY % ns-prefix "html:"> <!ENTITY % html.ncname "html"> <!ENTITY % html.name "%ns-prefix;%html.ncname;"> <!ELEMENT %html.name; %html.mdl;> Then you can redefine %ns-prefix; to your heart's content. --------------------------------------------- On the other hand, there's section 4.4.8 of XML 1.0: When a parameter-entity reference is recognized in the DTD and included, its replacement text is enlarged by the attachment of one leading and one following space (#x20) character; the intent is to constrain the replacement text of parameter entities to contain an integral number of grammatical tokens in the DTD. That seems to block it fairly severely. Is there some way to do this? Or is this kind of flexibility simply beyond the capabilities of XML 1.0 DTDs? I'm afraid it's probably the latter. Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. Building XML Applications Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical Cookies / Sharing Bandwidth http://www.simonstl.com *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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