- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 15:36:55 -0600
- To: keshlam@us.ibm.com
- CC: xml-names-editor@w3.org
keshlam@us.ibm.com wrote: [...] > The REC says namespaces change the DTD grammer to use qualified (prefixed) > names. In other words, the DTD is now able to actively say that an element or > attribute with a specific prefix is expected at a given point in the document. > > Architecturally, I presume you don't mean that to be taken literally, It is to be taken quite literally. no magic. >but > instead that the prefix should be read as "an element with any prefix that maps > into the same namespace as this prefix." That's a serious change to parser > validation engines, but if it's what you intend, fine. nope. There's no such change. [...] > If there's a document that does answer > these questions already available on the web, feel free to point me to it. The XML home page (http://www.w3.org/XML/) cites these two: Jan. 19, 1999: XML Namespaces by Example by Tim Bray http://www.w3.org/XML/#990119bray-ns -> http://www.xml.com/xml/pub/1999/01/namespaces.html Feb '99: note on XML Namespaces http://www.w3.org/XML/#9902clark-ns -> http://www.jclark.com/xml/xmlns.htm -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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