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At 03:46 PM 12/29/00 -0800, Tim Bray wrote: >It was dropped because the inevitable question arose: does src= >point at a DTD or some to-be-determined-in-the-future other >schema language? ... and the subsequent realization that even in >the traditional DTD territory, you often have more than one >associated with a single vocabulary. Bringing it back won't >help with the problem. It won't solve that particular problem, but it would let namespaces serve to _identify_ without having to _explain_. To me, that would be a substantial move toward getting back to real work. It doesn't solve everything, but it might settle the ever-swirling 'what do namespaces mean' question, and wouldn't require waiting for DDDS, UDDI, DISCO, or the solution-of-the-month to finally appear. Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. XHTML: Migrating Toward XML http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books
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