- From: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 20:13:55 +0700
- To: abrahams@acm.org
- CC: lisa.richards@reedtech.com, xml-names-issues@w3.org, frank.richards@reedtech.com
Paul Abrahams wrote: > > |James> But they do. As far as DTD processing is concerned, a colon is > |James> just another name character. The processing model is that first > |James> you construct an element tree just as with XML 1.0, and second > |James> you associate each element type and attribute name in the > |James> element tree with an expanded name. > > I assume that your second part means "you associate each element type > and attribute name in the element tree with *the ELEMENT or ATTLIST > declaration of* an expanded name", right? No. Each element type and attribute name in the element tree is associated with an expanded name consisting of a local name and optionally a URI. It's got nothing to do with DTD processing; it allows applications to recognize the name and process it appropriately. > If the information at the URI isn't a set of declarations, then what > might it be? Just a list of names, one per line (which is what > "collection" would imply without further explanation)? Of what use > would that be? And is that what is intended? There need not be anything at the end of the URI. It is just a globally unique identifier. James
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