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- From: Mark Tucker <mct@foyt.indyrad.iupui.edu>
- To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 15:53:26 -0500 (EST)
John Cowan cowan@ccil.org wrote:
mct> 4. Do the same to the DTD's that you read in.
jc>This is the sticky bit. Tim Bray phrases it as "If necessary, rewrite
jc>the DTD so that the same URIs have the same prefixes in DTD and
jc>instance."
jc>
jc>However, there is no formal way to express what prefixes in the DTD
jc>refer to what namespace URIs. In essence, you must know that in
jc>advance.
Hmm, isn't there some place at the top of the Document defining
the DTD to write
xmlns:BK=uri:books
and in so doing define the meaning of the prefixes this DTD uses?
jc> For validation to be a mechanical process, you must have
jc>some way of recording the frozen namespace-URI map for the DTD.
jc>
The namespace_prefix<->URI map for the DTD would be embedded in the DTD
The per-validation normalized_prefix<->namespace mapping
is maintained by the document validator process, and only needs
to live for the validation of a single document.
If you mean the mapping that tells validator processes that
'The DTD known by "uri:FrenchLibrary" is the following ....'
then that looks like a resource management issue that can be handled
by a higher level.
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