Re: Namespaces in XML: 3.1 the example [3]

james anderson (James.Anderson@mecom.mixx.de)
Fri, 03 Apr 1998 03:51:15 +0200


hello again,

the space in which a symbol resides says nothing about the space its value is
in.
thus it should be possible to place the "name" in a space independent of the uri
/ space associated with the entity to which it is bound in its declaration.

David Megginson wrote:

> james anderson writes:
>
> > (or rather, it's almost possible: there's a small problem, that the
> > wd-standard precludes qualified entity names. why?)
>
> The namespace spec allows element type names, attribute names, and PI
> targets to be associated with a URI. (External) entity and notation
> names are already associated with a URI.