FW: Declaration of "xml" namespace in commonElementMod.xsd incompatible with Microsoft XML technologies...

I’m passing this along on behalf
of a colleague:

 

 

In the DITA 1.2 XSDs, commonElementMod.xsd was changed to
declare the "xml" namespace.  This change causes problems when
using Microsoft XML processor technologies.  Neither MSXML nor .NET will
load commonElementMod.xsd or documents referencing this schema.  Instead,
a parse error is reported to the effect that “The namespace prefix is not
allowed to start with the reserved string "xml".  At line(24),
column(56).”

 

Microsoft’s interpretation of Namespace
constraint: Reserved Prefixes and Namespace Names ends up that
“nobody” can explicitly declare the “xml” namespace.  Given the MS
technology has been this way a long time and thus unlikely to change anytime
soon, I recommend removing the xml namespace declaration
in commonElementMod.xsd schema so DITA 1.2 content can be parsed by MS
technologies.

 

Regards,

Addam Smith

JustSystems

 

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