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RE: [dita] Use of standardized prefixes when incorporating foreignvocabularies

From: Yas Etessam
To: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 04:48:00 -0000

Yes, validating XML editors should be pulling the values from the schema/dtd. Albeit, sometimes some piece of connector code between an XML editor and a MathML renderer (where the Math tools might not be reading the DTD/schema) might expect a particular prefix. If a particular MathML connector uses something like "m:" as the default prefix, which doesn't match the namespace prefix, it is the connector that should change when implementing the system, not the DTD or schema. From this vendor's perspective, it is not a requirement that DITA defines standardized prefixes in the specification. Best regards, Yas Etessam