xml-dev - Re: Default Namespace should be clearly documented ...

[John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>]

Bryan Cooper scripsit:

> Thanx for the tip.  But then how do we tell the parser that we want it to
> switch into
> a default namespace at the start and another at the end of the ENTITY?
> 
> If that is another way to set the default, GREAT, but
> I just would like to see that in the spec 'cause it is obtuse enough as it is.
> 
> I suspect however that there is no way to have a PI at the beginning of the
> ENTITY....everything else encapsulated by the ENTITY....and another PI only
> at the end of the ENTITY.    And what is the proper PI to xml to change
> default namespace?

I'm not sure whether you are asking about the actual Namespaces
Proposed Recommendation, or some alternative PI-based namespace
mechanism.  Namespaces haven't been PI-based for many months now.
The current mechanism, while somewhat lacking vis-a-vis DTDs,
provides for scope control very neatly, because namespace defaulting
is always within the scope of an element with an "xmlns" attribute.

The current version is at http://www.w3.org/TR/PR-xml-names .

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