Namespaces: prefixes vs. no prefixes

[Peter Murray-Rust]

At 14:32 28/07/98 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>Ron Bourret wrote:
> 
>> This is undoubtedly a no-brainer, but it has just now occurred to me
that the
>> following two DTDs are almost certainly not the same.
>> 
>> <!ELEMENT A (B+)>
>> <!ELEMENT B (#PCDATA)>
>> 
>> and
>> 
>> <!ELEMENT FOO:A (FOO:B+)>
>> <!ELEMENT FOO:B (#PCDATA)>
>
>IMHO they are not, since the current namespace draft provides no
>way to declare the meaning of unprefixed element names.

I'd recommend waiting for the next version of the namespace spec before
analysing the 1998-05 draft too deeply. RSN, I believe.

	P.

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