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Re: Question on namespaces and DTDs

• To: "Alessandro Triglia" <sandro@m...>,"[public XML-DEV]" <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: Question on namespaces and DTDs
• From: "Alaric B. Snell" <alaric@a...>
• Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:47:20 +0000
• In-reply-to: <003a01c2e8be$278f7ae0$d191c044@Aldebaran>
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On Wednesday 12 March 2003 17:38, Alessandro Triglia wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a question about DTDs and "Namespaces in XML".
>
> First of all, is it true that any well-formed XML document according to
> "Namespaces in XML" must be well-formed according to XML 1.0 in the
> first place?   Is it true that "Namespaces in XML" is - syntactically -
> a subset of XML 1.0?
>
> If the answer is yes, suppose that a document contains an element whose
> QName is  "abc:el".  If the document contains a DTD, how should this
> element type be declared?   As "abc:el", I guess.  What if the document
> also contains another element  "xyz:el"  and the "xyz" prefix is bound
> to the same namespace name as "abc"?  I guess that, at the DTD level,
> "abc:el" and "xyz:el" are two distinct element types and both must be
> declared independently.
>
> Are my conclusions right?

Yep, as far as I can see; DTDs only support namespaces through a hack 
involving hardwiring what the namespace prefix will be.

>
> Alessandro Triglia
>

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