attribute lists and namespaces

[Richard Tobin]

> Notice that I have declared an attribute list for the DETAILS element in
> the foo namespace.

No, unfortunately.  DTDs are not namespace-aware, and they work on
the surface form of the document.  There is no way to declare anything
about an element in a namespace, only about an element with a given
name.

If you want to mix DTDs and namespaces, you will have to use
consistent prefixes everywhere.  Whether namespaces gain you anything
with that constraint depends on your application.

We expect one of the advantages of schemas to be that they will
provide a namespace-aware equivalent of DTDs.

-- Richard

xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev at ic.ac.uk
Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1
To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo at ic.ac.uk the following message;
(un)subscribe xml-dev
To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo at ic.ac.uk the following message;
subscribe xml-dev-digest
List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa at ic.ac.uk)