Elements cannot be described more than once in DTD, right ?

[Marcus Carr]

Pavel Velikhov wrote:

> Well, theoretically they are pretty serious problems. If you want to
> take a union of DTDs,
> say when integrating two XML databases, you might end up with a DTD that
> allows a lot of
> junk elements, while the original DTDs were strict enought. In the
> database setting, when
> the DTDs are used as database schemas, this leads to all sorts of
> problems.

Would you not use namespaces to distinguish the fragments originating from the two structures? I
would have thought this was a natural use for them - the simple disambiguation of names so as to
prevent clashes. I wouldn't care that I have more elements than I need because a:foo and b:foo have
identical content models, because it would all have been generated anyway. Could you provide an
example of a DTD being required to allow junk elements? Am I missing something?


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