Namespaces !

[Patrice Bonhomme]

I think that XML is really becoming HTML. I though that XML should be "a 
simplify subset of SGML" but it seems to be like the "Supra HTML 
recommandation".

tms at ansa.co.uk said:
] Having the NS declaration as an attribute of the topmost element to
] use it may help applications which process a tree extracting subtrees
] of a particular namespace. 

No, we clearly need to make a distinction between the NS declaration and the 
NS itself.

We could also put the Element declaration (content model, attribute list 
declaration) as a set of "ghost" attributes within the element itself :

<P xml:cm="#PCDATA A ACRONYM APPLET B BASEFONT BDO BIG BR BUTTON CITE CODE DFN 
EM FONT I IFRAME IMG INPUT KBD LABEL MAP OBJECT Q S SAMP SCRIPT SELECT SMALL 
SPAN STRIKE STRONG SUB SUP TEXTAREA TT U VAR" xml:attlist="ID ID #IMPLIED; 
LANG NAME #IMPLIED; etc..."> ... Funny, no ?

This attibute-based definition for XML namespaces is really bothering me. 

Pat.

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