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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)> Originally, I had thought that instances of the first case would be recognized by applications designed for the second -- that is, an application would have a "default" namespace) -- but now I am leaning the other way. The namespace spec does not describe how to compare names, so I am assuming that they are first resolved into fully qualified names and then compared stringwise. One of the consequences of this is that if namespace prefixes are used in a DTD, they must be used in both the instance file and in the application. (Of course, it is easy to imagine an application implementing a default namespace for backward compatibility, but this is outside the spec.) Could somebody confirm that these DTD are, in fact, different? -- Ron Bourret xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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