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On Wednesday 12 March 2003 17:38, Alessandro Triglia wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a question about DTDs and "Namespaces in XML".
>
> First of all, is it true that any well-formed XML document according to
> "Namespaces in XML" must be well-formed according to XML 1.0 in the
> first place? Is it true that "Namespaces in XML" is - syntactically -
> a subset of XML 1.0?
>
> If the answer is yes, suppose that a document contains an element whose
> QName is "abc:el". If the document contains a DTD, how should this
> element type be declared? As "abc:el", I guess. What if the document
> also contains another element "xyz:el" and the "xyz" prefix is bound
> to the same namespace name as "abc"? I guess that, at the DTD level,
> "abc:el" and "xyz:el" are two distinct element types and both must be
> declared independently.
>
> Are my conclusions right?
Yep, as far as I can see; DTDs only support namespaces through a hack
involving hardwiring what the namespace prefix will be.
>
> Alessandro Triglia
>
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