- From: S. Mike Dierken <mike@knownow.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 09:49:11 -0800
- To: "Laird Popkin" <laird@pop.mail.rcn.net>, <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
- Cc: <laird@io.com>
> It's an interesting document, but unless I misread it completely it pretty > much said that you shouldn't *want* to wrap independent, validated XML > within validated XML, since SGML, and thus XML, is meant to be used within > one document with one DTD, and that instead what you should want to do is > build the wrapped data by extending the wrapping DTD, or by not > validating. [from http://www.nyct.net/~aray/notes/wek-namespaces.txt] "The processing of documents happens *after* parsing. It's no more difficult to process a set of related documents than it is to process a single document. Therefore, there's no need to create a single document from multiple documents *before* parsing. By doing the combining *after* parsing you avoid all issues of syntactic combination, including the need to distinguish elements from different name spaces, because you haven't removed the original document boundaries, which defined the name space distinctions in the first place." I don't think Eliot was suggesting 'extending the wrapping DTD'. I think he was suggesting keeping the original document boundaries, which implies a multi-document approach rather than a single-document approach. Mike
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