[dsdl-comment] Re: [xml-dev] DSDL: use cases: namespace declaration notation

Ronald Bourret wrote:
>
> james anderson wrote:
>
 ...
> > How is one to use a declaration with indefinite scope to emulate the
> > lexical scope of attribute-based declarations within the
> > document entity?
>
> One doesn't. Why is this a requirement? (Note that the proposed
> validation DTD is no different from other schema languages in this
> respect. Neither is intended to perform lexical validation of QNames.)
>

If this is true, then one eliminates those document forms which exhibit synonomy and/or homography from the set of conforming
documents. Which exclused exactly those documents for which one really needs the machinery entailed by namespaces.

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