- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:14:17 -0400
- To: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>, www-tag@w3.org
At 10:59 AM -0400 10/22/03, Norman Walsh wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Suggested replacement: > >Applications that rely on DTD processing must impose additional >constraints on the use of namespaces. DTDs perform validation based on >the lexical form of the element and attribute names in the document. >This makes prefixes semantically significant in ways that are >anticipated by [XMLNS]. As other schema technologies become widely >deployed, this drawback will diminish in significance. > It might be useful to indicate that it is possible to use parameter entity references to avoid the problem of fixed prefixes when using DTDs. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA
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