DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: SGML vs XML

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ Yann Dirson <ydirson@users.sourceforge.net> was heard to say:
|> You can make either prefix (xl: or xlink:) work in any given document,
|> but as soon as you mix them, DTD validation is out the window.
|
| Sure.  But that'd only be possible in a namespace-enabled XML
| environement.  For SGML we anyway have to select a "namespace prefix",
| hardcode it in the DTD, and stick with it.

No, you can have per-document customization through an entity decl in
the internal subset.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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