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RE: My proposal: Implicit namespaces

  • From: "Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>
  • To: "'Dave Pawson'" <davep@dpawson.co.uk>
  • Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 15:33:21 +0100

RE:  My proposal: Implicit namespaces
> > 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
> >
...
> 
> So for docbook you'd have an author include all 300+ 
> namespaced elements 
> Mike?
>     Fine if Norm had them somewhere on the net I could reference them,
> but simply not practical to inline them in the document surely?

I would certainly expect the vocabulary definition to be (usually) produced
by the vocabulary designer, not by the document author! I would also expect
that one would be able to derive it from a schema or DTD - but in principle,
it shouldn't require a schema or DTD.

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay 



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