Re: [xml-dev] misprocessing namespaces (was Re: [xml-dev] There is a meaning, but it's not in the data alone)

Rick Jelliffe scripsit:

> <x:x  xmlns:x="some namespace"
>     xml:charref="some file of entity definitions  
>     some other file of entity definitions  
>     some further file of entity definitions  ">
>     &xxx;
> </x>

Just so.

> Would the xml:charref be scoped?

Yes.

>  Would editors of the text have to propogate
> the references during cut-and-paste?

That would be a quality-of-implementation issue, since there is
no standard (AFAIK) specifying the behavior of editors.

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