Re: DOCBOOK: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 20 Aug 2002

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>]

At 5:08 PM +0200 8/19/02, Yann Dirson wrote:

>As for the "namespaces aren't SGML" argument, it doesn't seem to be an
>issue - we just have to settle on a "namespace prefix" and hardcode it
>in the DTD.

You can actually do a little better than that. It can be 
parameterized in such a fashion that the prefix can be changed in the 
internal DTD subset. XHTML, MathML, SVG, and all the recent W3C recs 
do this.

>I gather from reading the various W3C standards documents that anyway
>this has to be done in XML too if one wants valid documents, right ?


Yes.
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