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Re: My proposal: Implicit namespaces

• From: Michael Ludwig <mlu@as-guides.com>
• To: 'XML Developers List' <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
• Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:11:21 +0200

Dave Pawson schrieb:
> On 08/06/2009 10:21 AM, Michael Kay wrote:

>> Another way to achieve this goal is to allow the designer of an XML
>> vocabulary (=a set of namespaces) to define
>>
>> (a) a list of predeclared namespace prefixes for that vocabulary
>>
>> (b) a list of local names that are known to be in each of those
>> namespaces
>>
>> When invoking an XML parser, the user should be able to reference
>> this "vocabulary definition", and the XML parser should use it to
>> resolve (a) any undeclared namespace prefixes, and (b) any unprefixed
>> local names. An "nnML parser" is then an XML parser with built-in
>> knowledge of the nnML vocabulary definition.
>
> So for docbook you'd have an author include all 300+ namespaced
> elements Mike?

No, "the user should be able to reference this 'vocabulary definition'".
Like - trying again :-) - in the DocBook DTD, which, in the future,
might contain the <!NAMESPACE org.docbook (para etc)> definitions.

>     Fine if Norm had them somewhere on the net I could reference them,
> but simply not practical to inline them in the document surely?

You might, however, be allowed to parametrize or enhance the vocabulary
in the internal subset.

-- 
Michael Ludwig

• References:
  • Re: Pragmatic namespaces
    • From: Tim Bray <Tim.Bray@Sun.COM>
  • Re: Pragmatic namespaces
    • From: Micah Dubinko <Micah.Dubinko@marklogic.com>
  • Re: Pragmatic namespaces
    • From: Tim Bray <Tim.Bray@Sun.COM>
  • Re: Pragmatic namespaces
    • From: Liam Quin <liam@w3.org>
  • Re: Pragmatic namespaces
    • From: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@codalogic.com>
  • My proposal: Implicit namespaces
    • From: rjelliffe@allette.com.au
  • RE: My proposal: Implicit namespaces
    • From: "Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>
  • Re: My proposal: Implicit namespaces
    • From: Dave Pawson <davep@dpawson.co.uk>