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Re: XIN: XML implicit namespace definitions

  • From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>
  • To: "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
  • Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:22:02 +0100

Re:  XIN: XML implicit namespace definitions
Le mercredi 25 mars 2009 à 17:42 +0000, David Carlisle a écrit :
> 
> > I guess it's because
> > so many users use XML parsers which don't consult the external
> > DTD subset and work properly only for stand-alone documents.
> 
> That, and the one widely deployed (in a web browser) parser that does
> fetch external subsets explictly refuses to let you default namespace
> declarations (whether they are in an external or internal subset) which
> is why for example you can't use the offical xhtml DTD with IE, and why
> despite the fact that the xhtml+mathml dtd is mechanically constructed
> via xhtml modularisation, I hand edit the thing not to default the xhtml
> and mathml namespaces. 

This is an issue indeed, but are we sure that this browser would support
any new mechanism better than DTDs in a near future?

Also, you can still use DTDs at authoring time to provide default
namespace declarations and run your document through an XSLT identity
transformation before sending the document to that browser... If you're
lucky, maybe you can even get the transformation done by the browser
itself!

Eric

> David

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