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Mike Champion wrote: > > It's clear that elements, > attributes, text, and namespaces are more or less universal, > so they belong at the lowest level. DTDs, data types, > content model constraints, etc. all have their uses and > belong in the hierarchy, but not in the base. I agree, except for the bit about namespaces being universal. I very rarely need or use them in my own vocabularies. Or am I in the minority here? > Wait a minute, DTD's *are* useful! We should > all just define entities containing our pet rants on this > topic and reference them when appropriate. That would save lots of typing, > if only DTDs were supported in email tools :~) Nah, that's not the Web way. Pet rants should be identified by URIs. <URL: http://www.flightlab.com/~joe/sgml/sanity.txt > <URL: URN:pin:je30#namespaces-are-a-PITA > --Joe English jenglish@f...
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