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Chris Maden wrote: > As far as I can tell, the biggest problem is the possibility that a > prefix's meaning can change within a document. But your processor > should be operating on URI+suffix, not the prefix, and changing a > mapping table can't be *that* hard. Except for DTD-based validation, which has to stay backward compatible. So either we heave over DTD's altogether, or we apply Tim's algorithm (which unquestionably works, but at a price). > True, I'm not a sophisticated programmer, and I may be overlooking > something. But I have a hard time seeing Tim Bray and James Clark > bulled by political pressure, even (especially?) from Microsoft. How about from W3C staff? After all, the PI-based version of the namespace rec made it almost all the way up before being vetoed, as I understand (I wasn't there, so I speak under correction). -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@c... You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5) 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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