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"Henry S. Thompson" <ht@c...> wrote: > > <!ENTITY % NS.prefixed "IGNORE" > > > <!ENTITY % rddl.prefixed "%NS.prefixed;" > > > [...] > > If I understand this correctly, it is _much_ more complex than > necessary Yes, it is. Many people have pointed out that the complexity of the QNames part of XHTML m12n [1] makes it difficult to implement, including myself (and apparently you have too [2]). However, I believe that the HTML WG was correct in laying out this method because the purpose of XHTML m12n is to be *modularised*, and not to be concise. If you compacted all of the entities, it would be about 1% of its original size, but then it wouldn't make for good modularization :-) If RDDL is to be a modularized family, according to the specification, then it might as well go by the letter. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/dtd_module_rules.html#s_module_na mespace [2] I note this line in the specification:- "Incorporation of the Henry Thompson/Dan Connolly XML Namespace handling process" What were your suggestions, I can't seem to find them out from lists etc.? Kindest Regards, Sean B. Palmer http://infomesh.net/sbp/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/ [ERT/GL/PF] "Perhaps, but let's not get bogged down in semantics." - Homer J. Simpson, BABF07.
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