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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: SGML vs XML
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 08:53:45AM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: > / Trevor Jenkins <trevor.jenkins@suneidesis.com> was heard to say: > | Your question begs further questions such as support for legacy (SGML) > | documents, can a XML compliant DTD be used with SGML instances, and > > The really thorny question here is, how long can DocBook resist > features that are XML-specific in practice (mixed namespaces, > constraints expressed in a schema language other than DTDs), etc. > > The proposed linking extensions will add XLink-namespaced attributes > more-or-less throughout. That works fine in SGML, until someone uses a > different xmlns declaration for the XLink namespace in different parts > of the same document. Why should it be a problem ? That's something an XML author could want to do, but that would just not be available to SGML authors. Or do I miss the point ? -- Yann Dirson <Yann.Dirson@fr.alcove.com> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support manager Responsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Software Consultant Consultant senior en Logiciels Libres Debian developer (dirson@debian.org) Développeur Debian
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