- From: Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:47:32 +0100
- To: Paul Libbrecht <paul@hoplahup.net>, "Michael[tm] Smith" <mike@w3.org>
- CC: www-tag@w3.org
On 14/01/2014 09:21 , Paul Libbrecht wrote: > your suggestion ignores a function of DTDs which, I feel, is still > relevant: DTDs are vocabulary helpers. Using a DTD you can declare > implied attributes including implied namespaces. That means that you > can, together with a DTD, distribute much more readable XML sources. Please, please no. Using the external subset in order to default namespace declarations is a really, really bad practice. Processing the external subset is optional, which means that when you apply this sort of trick your documents will have completely different Infosets from one processor to the next. -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon
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