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Ronald Bourret wrote:
> I think you're missing something. Forcing parser writers to implement
> namespaces is not the same as forcing document authors to use them.
No, but as long as namespaces not part of the recommendation, as DTD is a viable
mechanism. As soon as they are part of the recommendation, a DTD is potentially
incapable of dealing with "vanilla" v1.1 documents. I would have a hard time justifying
keeping DTDs under those circumstances.
> The
> only people who would be hurt by requiring namespace support in XML 1.1
> are those who (against the advice of the XML 1.0 spec) use colons in
> element type and attribute names. I'm curious if anybody actually does
> this.
I can't imagine that they do, but that's not the issue, I don't think.
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