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John Cowan wrote: > > james anderson scripsit: > > > The declarations need appear in only those places analogous to those in which they would have to appear within the document entity. > > Where they are declared as default values, these are the only declarations which are necessary. > > But people are free to use unnecessary declarations, and sometimes do. > Trying to figure out, indeed, just where necessary declarations must > appear (unless you punt and put them all on the root element) is quite > difficult for unaided human brains in complex cases. Is it more of a conceptual challenge to add an attribute declaration to the internal subset than it is to add a global namespace declaration to the internal subset? The only difference is that the attribute declaration rquires that one must determine the "root" element. I would have thought one needed to make that decision in order to encode the internal subset. > > > I agree, that it is gratuitous to require that xmlns:* attributes be declared for an element to be valid. On the other hand, > > where they are declared, they must be reported as default values. > > Then let us not permit their declaration at all! > With which goal?
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