Re: NVDL

noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com scripsit:

> I'm not an NVDL expert, but my impression is that it's not focussed 
> primarily on such idioms.  In summary, I have no problem pointing to NVDL 
> as an example of good practice for the things it does well;  I would like 
> to avoid appearing in so doing to discourage use of languages in which 
> different versions share a namespace, or in which the same version of a 
> language freely mixes bits from many namespaces.

Fortunately, RELAX NG handles both of those cases extremely well, and
need not match on a particular element name any more than a particular
namespace name: it can match a document on all of its content using an
appropriately loose schema or by providing a union (choice) of schemas.

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