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> > Namespaces are NAME spaces. That's all. Folks read all sorts of other > > implications into namespaces, and everyone has their own ideas about what > > they want to do with namespaces, but namespaces themselves (a) are just > > naming and (b) make no particular effort to be compatable with DTD > > validation. There was a fairly explicit assumption that if you were using > > Namespaces, you would either work with well-formed documents or with a > > namespace-aware schema language, _NOT_ with DTDs. <PaulAbrahams> > Can one find that "fairly explicit assumption" in any W3C document? If so, > which one, and precisely where? </PaulAbrahams> In no way do I mean to "pile-on" but, along these same lines . . . Norman said today . . . <NormanWalsh> > Right. Sorry. This technique only works if all the DTDs in question > have the "namespace hack" so that, from my example, DocBook elements > are all in the DocBook namespace and HTML elements are all in the HTML > namespace. > > If the DTDs don't have the namespace hack, mixing them just isn't > possible. </NormanWalsh> It would be nice if someone could draft a "Namespace Hack 1.0" specification and append it to (or even display it prominently on) the current W3C Namespace 1.0 specification. There are a variety of *non-standard* ways we can all dream up to make this work. The point of the W3C and standards is just that -- *standards* -- so we know how to communicate with each other on the Internet. That's all I'm after. Thanks, Todd
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