Ronald Bourret wrote:
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> james anderson wrote:
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> > How is one to use a declaration with indefinite scope to emulate the
> > lexical scope of attribute-based declarations within the
> > document entity?
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> One doesn't. Why is this a requirement? (Note that the proposed
> validation DTD is no different from other schema languages in this
> respect. Neither is intended to perform lexical validation of QNames.)
>
If this is true, then one eliminates those document forms which exhibit synonomy and/or homography from the set of conforming
documents. Which exclused exactly those documents for which one really needs the machinery entailed by namespaces.
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