RE: How to use DTDs, or not to (was: RE: ACL and lockdiscovery)

> From: w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org
> [mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Dennis E. Hamilton
> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 12:01 AM
> To: Lisa Dusseault; 'Julian Reschke'; 'Geoffrey M Clemm';
> w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
> Subject: RE: How to use DTDs, or not to (was: RE: ACL and lockdiscovery)


Hi Dennis,

just a few line-comments.

> ...
> 	(a) the ANY case in an element markup declaration means any
> element that is declared in the DTD, not some undeclared or
> unspecified element.
> ...

Thanks for the reminder. I had forgotten about that. It basically means that
by definition you can't express the content model of <prop> using a DTD.

> ...
> I notice that "DAV:" is referred to as the namespace, when,
> according to the Namespace specification and other specifications
> since (such as XML Schema), it is technically a prefix.  That is,
> attribute
>
> 	xmlns:DAV="some-URI-for-the-WebDAV-namespace"
>
> establishes the "DAV:" prefix for QNames that refer to local
> names of the WebDAV namespace.
> ...

No, no. "DAV:" is indeed the namespace URI for WebDAV. There are some cases
where it's *also* used as prefix, but that's just a coincidence.

> ...

Regards, Julian