• To: Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@r...>
• Subject: Re: Come On, DTD, Come On! Thoughts on DSDL Part 9
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 09:30:42 -0600
• Cc: Michael Fuller <msf@m...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@r...> of "Fri, 14 Jun 2002 00:05:40 PDT." <3D0995C4.2EF20A6C@r...>
• Sender: uche.ogbuji@f...

> Michael Fuller wrote:
> 
> > Note that this implies that DTDs that allow the use of use xml:lang [etc.]
> > must explicitly declare:
> >     <!NAMESPACE xml "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace">
> > 
> > In fact, would it also be the case that *every* DTD that use
> > namespaces at all must explicitly declare**:
> >     <!NAMESPACE xmlns "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace">
> 
> These could also be bound by definition, which is what the namespaces
> spec does. (Actually, unless there's an errata I've missed, only xml is
> bound. xmlns is by definition not bound to anything.)

Yep.  There's an erratum you missed.

http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-names-19990114-errata#NE05


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