[
Lists Home |
Date Index |
Thread Index
]
- From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
- To: XML Dev <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 16:07:55 -0400
james anderson wrote:
> if the 19980802 spec were refined to include the requisite mechanism for
> binding prefixes outside of the root element along with the anscilliary
> scoping rules, then this should be possible.
Doubtless, but it doesn't and that's that. In the DTD, prefixes
are without meaning.
> the implicit pi binding mechanism and dynamic scope rule of the earlier draft
> were, in any event, sufficient.
So they were. "Dynamic" scope? More like global scope.
Et iterum censeo, local ns definition (as opposed to local
ns *defaulting*, which I applaud) delenda est.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)
xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/
To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message;
(un)subscribe xml-dev
To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message;
subscribe xml-dev-digest
List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)
|
