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- From: Mark Tucker <mct@foyt.indyrad.iupui.edu>
- To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 14:53:47 -0500 (EST)
Wait, People,
DO YOU OR DONT YOU BUY TIM BRAY'S ALGORITHM for
DTD validation in the face of Namespaces:
"Re-write the document instance with consistent Prefixes
then do a normal DTD validatation."
I don't see anything kludgy in it. (modulo my preference to
use expanded names directly in the processor's symbol table.)
It just says:
1. Determine the Expanded the names the way the
Namespace Proposal says. (Section 6.3)
2. Define a unique prefix for each namespace definition URI .
3. Rewrite the element or attribute, prepending the
(possibly generated) unique prefix for the namespace
of the element/attributes Expanded Name.
This give you P1:BOOK, P1:NAME, P3:ADDRESS
if BOOK and NAME come from the same namespace URI.
4. Do the same to the DTD's that you read in.
5. Do normal DTD validation of the rewritten instance
document against the rewritten DTD.
It seems to me that DTD's with namespaces CAN be validated.
"Richard L. Goerwitz" <richard@goon.stg.brown.edu> wrote
rg> Then they won't validate. That's all. Or (lacking an associated
rg> DTD), they could be validated in the kludgy fashion that the current
rg> namespace spec seems to require (i.e., you have to make your DTD aware
rg> of all the new:elements your use of namespaces requires - with
rg> allowances for de- faulting :-( ).
You do not have to rewrite your DTD at all. You do not have
to "merge content models", and "introduce ANY".
The whole validation process is mechanical, and gives the
expected results.
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