[web-devel] DTD types

[Yitzchak Gale]

I wrote:
>> "Note that DTD-based validation is not namespace-aware in the
>> following sense: a DTD constrains the elements and attributes
>> that may appear in a document by their uninterpreted names,
>> not by (namespace name, local name) pairs."
>>
>> So in the DTD, the prefix *is* semantically significant.
>> And Clark notation is irrelevant, because there is no use
>> for the URI in the DTD.

John Millikin wrote:
> If I'm reading that paragraph correctly, the prefix is not
> significant, or even present, in a DTD. You only use the local name.

No, the spec is quite clear about that. Element names and
attribute names are "qualified names", but their namespaces
are not "interpreted"; those terms are defined precisely earlier
in the spec. In order for that to produce XML documents that
make sense, the spec recommends that you use #FIXED for the
xmlns:foo attribute in the appropriate places in the DTD.

Thanks,
Yitz