Re: [xml-dev] To namespace or not to Namespace ....

[Michael Ludwig <milu71@gmx.de>]

Michael Kay schrieb am 09.04.2010 um 21:53:57 (+0100)
[RE: [xml-dev] To namespace or not to Namespace ....]:

> A simple clean design which would avoid these problems might be as
> follows:
> 
> (1) elements and attributes have hierarchic names, for example
> org.fpml.invoice, which can always be written out in full if so
> desired
> 
> (2) if abbreviated names are wanted to reduce verbosity, then at the
> outermost level of a document (perhaps in the internal DTD) prefixes
> can be defined
> 
> <!PREFIX f = org.fpml>
> 
> allowing the element name to be written as <f:invoice>

Ha! In the DTD! Good old DTD! :-)

Cheers,
-- 
Michael Ludwig