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> Is it wrong to use these attributes in a DocBook 5 document when I
> haven't declared these namespaces? The DocBook schema references the
> namespaces, but oXygen plays dumb on content completion from them
> unless I add the namespaces to the source.
>
>
> Like so:
> <chapter xml:id="blahblah"
> xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
> xmlns:xl="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
> xmlns:xml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"
> version="5">
It should not be necessary to declare the namespace with the 'xml:' prefix
anywhere (since it is a special predeclared prefix). So the xml:id behaviour
seems like a Oxygen quirk.
The XLink namespace must always be declared if you want to use it.
/MJ
