- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:08:16 -0500
- To: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>
- Cc: "'www-tag'" <www-tag@w3.org>
At 4:40 PM +0100 2/13/02, Jacek Kopecky wrote: > Norm, > had the DocBook schema been designed to allow for arbitrary >extensibility in an other namespace, the added element (or >attribute) would be the solution. Look at HTML - it ignores >unknown tags. In XML we could ignore unknown elements from >unknown namespaces _and_ their contents as well, of course. > Consider this position not from the perspective of Norm, who wrote most of the DocBook DTDs and stylesheets, but from my perspective, an interested user but one who hasn't had any real involvement ion the development of DocBook. Can I change DocBook to make it more extensible to arbitrary namespaces? Should I? Should I have to to be able to add my own unique processing information to my own DocBook documents? Processing instructions are necessary because we need to add this information to documents written in XML vocabularies we do not control and cannot change. Perhaps schema languages should be written in a more permissive fashion so that they automatically allow anything from other namespaces. Everything not forbidden is permitted. However, that is not how either DTDs or the W3C XML Schema Language is written. Consequently we need processing instructions. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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