- From: Richard Billington <richard.billington@commerceone.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 14:05:35 -0700
- To: xml-uri@w3.org, richard.billington@commerceone.com
I'd like to create namespaces that "inherit" from each other. That is, I'd like to create Namespace-A, which includes names from Namespace-B. I'd like to use such a namespace as the default namespace (so I can make unqualified references to names in the (A + B) namespace). One way I can see of accomplishing this is <MyDoc xmlns:"someuri" xmlns:"anotheruri"> ... </MyDoc> Is this legal (getting my default names from more than one "namespace")? Is there another intended way of doing this? Here are my assumptions about namespaces: there can be a file pointed to by the URI which has a dtd or schema which defines elements and/or attribute names. While a document referencing a namespace could use any XML name with the local prefix, a valid XML document will only use element and/or attribute names defined in that namespace file, and other references to that names in that name space are "undefined" or invalid.
Received on Tuesday, 29 August 2000 17:05:45 UTC