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Here, here, I second that motion! (*Chris*) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Borden" <jborden@m...> To: "Michael Champion" <mike.champion@s...>; <xml-dev@l...> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 7:55 AM Subject: RE: DTDs aren't going away even when schemas arrive (was Re: Aretherestill a lot of people using DTD rather than schema?) > Michael Champion wrote: > > >So whatever the future of schemas for declaring constraints on > > document structure and content, DTDs aren't going away in the forseeable > > future as the place to make such declarations. > > > > And the question of how to handle the case where both the DTD and schema > > contain content model constraints is not easy to answer. I write this > > [sorry, Lauren!] while listening to the DOM WG beat their > > collective heads > > against the wall trying to figure this out ... and lets not even > > talk about > > the little nuggets of complexity that namespaces throw into this > > toxic stew. > > > > At the very very least DTDs need to be retrofitted to handle namespaces. I > would say, add no new functionality, allow me to use DTDs as they otherwise > currently exist, with documents that use namespaces. > > The issues: > 1) need to define namespace prefix bindings in the DTD, at least for local > DTD purposes > 2) the DTD declaration will depend on the expanded name, not the > prefix:local name in the literal sense as it currently stands. > > Jonathan Borden > The Open Healthcare Group > http://www.openhealth.org >
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