Re: For literals: why I changed my mind

>Well, you were making the point that it's possible to reuse DTDs, so that
a
>single DTD can be used for namespaces with different prefixes.   What do
you
>think would be a better approach?

We're getting offtopic, so I'll say this and shaddup:

A better approach would have been to design Namespaces so they were more
DTD-validation-compatable, but that didn't happen (and I can see that it
would have been tough).

Another better approach would have been to get a core version of Schemas
out the door early --  enough to do DTD-equivalent validation but
Namespace-aware -- so we could start to move away from DTDs. That hasn't
happened yet.

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Joe Kesselman  / IBM Research