Re: Confusion with Namespaces?

Rick Jelliffe (ricko@allette.com.au)
Tue, 14 Apr 1998 06:09:47 +1000


From: Tyler Baker <tyler@infinet.com>

> Any thoughts here?

It would be better if they just said somewhere "the namespace PI has the
same syntax as XML element start-tags" and then given the following
pseudo-declaration:

<!ATTLIST #PI xml:namespace
prefix NMTOKEN #REQUIRED
ns CDATA #REQUIRED
src CDATA #IMPLIED >
<!-- NOTES:
prefix is an XML NAME, but cannot contain ":".
ns is a URI.
src is a URI.
-->

The production they probably want is probably more like

[1] <?xml:namespace' S
(NSDef S PrefixDef | PrefixDef S NSDef)
(S (SrcDef S? )? )?
'?>'

This is a case where, to me, the markup declararation syntax
has clear advantages over BNF. And I dread to think what it
would look like in some version of XML-data element syntax.

Rick Jelliffe