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

On 6/14/02 7:27 AM, "james anderson" <james.anderson@setf.de> wrote:

> Is it more of a conceptual challenge to add an attribute declaration to the
> internal subset than it is to add a global namespace
> declaration to the internal subset? The only difference is that the attribute
> declaration rquires that one must determine the
> "root" element. I would have thought one needed to make that decision in order
> to encode the internal subset.
>

There is a class of (very useful to me at least) XML parser that is *not*
required to deal with either attribute or element declarations in the
internal subset. If what you guys are talking about with namespaces is
strictly for use within a DTD and we are definitely going to require the old
namespace declaration style in the actual document, then these parsers won't
matter. If someone is thinking that the namespace declaration in a DTD is
going to be useful in the document then I'm not so sure that a strategy that
requires parsers to know about elements and attributes in the internal
subset is going to be OK.

Cheers,
Bob

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