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there is nothing in a XML document (except maybe its public ID
which unfortunately mandates a DTD) which describes the combination used
to mix the namespaces.
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What about a namespace prefix in an XML document?
Joe Chiusano
Booz | Allen | Hamilton
Eric van der Vlist wrote:
>
> Thomas B. Passin said:
>
> > The namespace tells immediately which schema is in play.
>
> No, that's not always as simple.
>
> There isn't always a schema and even when there is a schema (or more than
> one schema) there is nothing in a XML document (except maybe its public ID
> which unfortunately mandates a DTD) which describes the combination used
> to mix the namespaces.
> If you take a RDF document, the namespace of the document element is
> always the RDF namespace and you must dig almost randomly into the
> document to find its true nature. The situation is hardly better in a
> XHTML document.
> I am not ranting against namespaces, but I think that we need something
> else to describe what I am tempted to call the document type...
> Eric
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