RE: SD5 - Namespaces

• From: Andrew Layman <andrewl@microsoft.com>
• Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 13:58:48 -0700
• To: "'Steven J. DeRose'" <sjd@eps.inso.com>, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
• Message-ID: <7BB61B44F197D011892800805FD4F792A4BFB0@RED-03-MSG.dns.microsoft.com>

Agreed.  People need multiple concurrent namespaces so that
attributes/subelements from several different namespaces can all be used
within an element, simultaneously, without modifying the element's
content model in the original DTD. For example, when applying a digital
signature to an element,

	<name>
		William Shakespeare
		<DSIG>

<digest>314159265358979323846<type>ABC</type></digest>
			<who>Andrew</who><when>19970521</when></DSIG>
	</name>


we don't want to have to track down the DTD in which name was defined,
then somehow modify it to add DSIG to its content model. We just want to
somehow declare "Within this element, I will be using some subelements
from the w3c.dsig schema, which you can recognize by the namespace
identifier 'w3c'."

	<name>
		William Shakespeare
		<w3c:DSIG>

<digest>314159265358979323846<type>ABC</type></digest>

<who>Andrew</who><when>19970521</when></w3c:DSIG>
	</name>

Received on Wednesday, 21 May 1997 17:00:21 UTC