Re: [xtm-wg] New file uploaded to xtm-wg

[Murray Altheim <murray.altheim@eng.sun.com>]

Daniel Rivers-Moore wrote:
> 
> You should not use any fixed prefix followed by a colon. Things followed by
> colons should only be namespace prefixes (see XML 1.0 specification), and
> namespace prefixes are arbitrary - it is the URI associated with the prefix
> that is significant.
> 
> If XTM is to have its own namespace, then it should specify a URI that
> identifies that namespace, but it cannot mandate a particular prefix (though
> it can SUGGEST one!).

Indeed, in the last DTD I posted to the group, I included the same 
mechanism used in XHTML to allow for redeclaration of the prefix. There
is a default prefix that is sugggested, but the DTD is also by default
*not* prefixed. I don't think we really need XML namespaces (and the 
confusion they engender) that badly. A very unproven idea, IMO.

Murray

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Murray Altheim, SGML/XML Grease Monkey     <mailto:altheim&#64;eng.sun.com>
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