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Re: implicit change of default namespace

From: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:12:45 +0000
Message-ID: <74a894af0802280912n7a7db046wfc41483a0dac1d8b@mail.gmail.com>
To: "Ben Liblit" <liblit@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Re: implicit change of default namespace

On 28/02/2008, Ben Liblit <liblit@cs.wisc.edu> wrote:
>
>  > No, and a good thing too. Using defaults in the DTD to put elements in a
>  > namespace that isn't visible to the casual reader of the XML instance is a
>  > source of immense frustration to people trying to process the XML,
>
>
> OK, fair enough.  The DTD namespace trick always seemed a bit fishy to
>  me anyway.  Thanks.

"fishy" doesn't really do justice to the pain caused by this trick...



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Received on Thursday, 28 February 2008 17:13:18 GMT

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