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   RE: Does DTD validation work with namespaces?

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  • From: Jonathan Borden <jborden@mediaone.net>
  • To: abrahams@acm.org, xml-dev@xml.org
  • Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 16:46:21 -0400

Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
>
> It would be possible to solve this problem by extending the
> syntax of EntityDecl
> to allow the specification of an implicit prefix for an included
> DTD, but that
> would require integration of the Namespace spec into the XML
> spec.  Personally I
> believe that would be a Good Thing, but it doesn't appear to be
> in the cards.
>
Actually XML names already redefine:

doctypedecl
elementdecl
cp
Mixed
AttlistDecl
AttDef

so I don't think that it didn't happen for a lack of desire to muck with XML
1.0.

Jonathan Borden
The Open Healthcare Group
http://www.openhealth.org





 

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