- From: Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>
- Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 19:28:32 -0500
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: "William F. Hammond" <hammond@csc.albany.edu>, <mozilla-mathml@mozilla.org>, <www-talk@w3.org>
Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: >>>> Mozilla's XML parser should be smart enough to recognize the HTML DTDs and >>>> thus expand these entities properly, even if it doesn't validate the page >>>> (which I believe it should). >>> (If it did, you couldn't arbitrarily use namespaces.) >> I don't know if this is possible with Mozilla's current technology, but >> ideally it would validate the XHTML only within the HTML namespace (and the >> attribute space). > Forget Mozilla's current technology -- that's not even possible within the > W3C's technology. XSchemas are supposed to be the way to do that. And XSchemas are W3C technology, so what's the issue. (I use validate in a broader sense than just DTDs to include anything that tells you when your document is messed up.) -- [ Aaron Swartz | me@aaronsw.com | http://www.aaronsw.com ]
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