Namespaces and XML validation

[Charles Frankston]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Megginson [mailto:david at megginson.com]
> Sent: Saturday, August 08, 1998 5:48 AM
> To: XML Dev
> Subject: RE: Namespaces and XML validation
> 
> Charles Frankston writes:
> 
>  > I do not believe the new namespace proposal with local scoping
>  > makes [DTD validation] any harder to do than the old PI based
>  > namespace proposal. 
> 
> This claim is incorrect, though the culprit is the local scoping and
> defaulting rather than the declaration mechanism itself.
> 
> XML 1.0 DTDs know only about one-part, unresolved names (i.e. "foo" or
> "bar:foo", not null + "foo" or "http://www.megginson.com/" + "foo").
> 

Yes, David, but you're taking me somewhat too literally here (this is what I
meant about being "insufficiently imaginative").  If I rephrased what I
wrote as:

"It is not too hard to evolve the concept of today's DTD validation to
support two part locally scoped names (including the default prefix)."

Would you still disagree with it?

I believe this can be done -- it would obviously not be the validation as
specified in XML 1.0, but a sensible evolution of the same.  However, as I
also said in my post, it would be essentially worthless, because it would
encourage placing the prefix in the DTDs.  I believe even this can be dealt
with, but I'd rather spend the efforts on a new schema language, than
patching DTDs.

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