On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 08:53:45AM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:
> / Trevor Jenkins <> 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 ?
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