Re: [xml-dev] Come On, DTD, Come On! Thoughts on DSDL Part 9

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Re: [xml-dev] Come On, DTD, Come On! Thoughts on DSDL Part 9
On 6/13/02 2:34 AM, "Ronald Bourret" <> wrote:

> Norman Walsh wrote:
>> 
>> / John Cowan <> was heard to say:
>> | Issue: Is it an error to mention a prefix that is not declared?  My
>> | answer: no; if this is done, name matching falls back to string identity.
>> 
>> If the DTD contains an <!NAMESPACE decl, yes, otherwise no.
> 
> Also agreed. Don't allow a halfway solution -- you're either using
> namespaces or you're not.
> 

I'm not sure what you mean by this. That this is to be the only way to
declare namespaces? That you can't mix DTD and old-style namespace
declarations/specification (whatever)?