RE: [xml-dev] My report on experiments with unused namespaces

["Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>]

Rich Salz wrote:

> Of course it has a zillion (technical term :) false positives.

Rich, would you elaborate upon this please? Assume the DTD defines correctly the content of correct XML documents. You have an example of a correct XML document that fails DTD validation? That is, you have an example of a used namespace that is incorrectly identified as an unused namespace?

/Roger

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Salz [mailto:rsalz@us.ibm.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 10:40 AM
To: Costello, Roger L.
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] My report on experiments with unused namespaces

> Conclusion: it appears that one mechanism for detecting unused 
> namespaces in an XML document is to validate it against a DTD. Can 
> anyone think of a case where a DTD would not detect an unused namespace?

Of course it has a zillion (technical term :) false positives.

        /r$

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