Re: Choosing namespaces syntax for MathML

juanrgonzaleza@canonicalscience.com wrote:
> I type <foo> in the editor, how does it know if i mean <a:foo> or 
> <b:foo>? Whereas this could probably increase readability, I am not 
> sure if productivity would decrease this way.I am not sure also if 
> automatic detection of conflicts can be done.
Using a DTD you can do that, sure, a DTD will not accept an ATTLIST 
declaration twice hence the conflict leads to a non-well-formed file 
(again, using DTD-aware parsers).
There's no smooth path that I know of between hidden element namespace 
using such as DTD and fully namespaced elements (either with xmlns="xx" 
or with prefixes). But it should be pretty easy to have a "namespace 
fixer", e.g. in dom4j or jdom) based on a table as to which namespace to 
assign elements without explicit prefix.

paul