- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@uiuc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 17:07:17 -0500
- To: Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org>, wai-xtech@w3.org
- Cc: mimasa@w3.org
Acording to Rich you need to use the XHTML 1.1 schema, not the DTD. Since schemas apparently are ok with namespace additions and DTD are not. Jon ---- Original message ---- >Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 15:47:29 -0400 >From: Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org> >Subject: validation, namespaces, and XHTML >To: wai-xtech@w3.org >Cc: mimasa@w3.org > > > >Jon asks, "why do my sample pages[1] using the namespace declaration >to tie 'role' values to the XHTML 2.0 namespace fail validation as >XHTML 1.1?" > >I don't know the whole answer, but I think the shape of the answer is >given in what Mimasa had to do to create a "validatable to DTD" >dialect including HTML, MathML, and SVG. > >http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-XHTMLplusMathMLplusSVG-20020809/ > >Here I believe he used the driver-DTD techniques from "modularization >in HTML" that are used to integrate XHTML 1.1 from its several >modules. > >This is what Raman suggests in > >http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:NX6hOEVPKi0J:www.w3.org/2004/04/webapps-cdf-ws/papers/IBM.pdf+validation+of+mixed+namespace+documents&hl=en > >Mimasa used the "Modularization in HTML" DTD-building technique to >extend the syntax under one DTD cover, folding more modules into a >composite DTD. This created a consolidated syntax description in the >composite DTD that the validator could work from. The W3C validator >is based on an SGML parser, which checks document instances against a >DTD. > >Al > >[1] http://cita.rehab.uiuc.edu/mozilla/role/test1-links.html > Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Director of IT Accessibility Services Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) and Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Disability Resources and Education Services (DRES) Voice: (217) 244-5870 Fax: (217) 333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://cita.rehab.uiuc.edu/ WWW: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/jongund/www/
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