namespaces discussion

[Peter Jones]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	John Cowan [SMTP:cowan at locke.ccil.org]
> Sent:	Thursday, September 10, 1998 6:54 PM
> To:	XML Dev
> Subject:	Re: namespaces discussion
> 
> Peter Jones wrote:
> 
> > What do you mean by compounding DTDs? I don't know whether any of my
> > postings to the list have been getting through, ...but why can't the
> > notion of a DTD be an utterly nebulous concept in the abstract,
> elements
> > themselves having a namespace URIs which addresses a DTD entity for
> that
> > particular element. Different elements validated against different
> > declarations lying in dispersed DTD entities.
> > Why isn't this idea getting through to anyone? (am v. frustrated!)
> 
> This may be feasible for some yet-to-be-standardized schema language,
> but not for DTDs as such.  "DTD" is a fixed, narrow, SGML-compatible
> notion that can't be changed.
> 
> In addition, the namespace draft has laid down that the URI is
> used solely for comparison, and needn't represent an existent
> resource, much less a specific schema.
	[Peter Jones]  
	Doing my best to be tactful here (although I admit I'm not very
good at it :)
	Isn't XML-dev about critiquing specs and pushing the whole issue
of XML as far as it needs to go? Even if that means dropping ideas on to
the list that mean going back to the drawing board as far as specs are
concerned.
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