Re: Namespaces: prefixes vs. no prefixes

Ron Bourret (rbourret@dvs1.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de)
Wed, 29 Jul 1998 14:35:30 +0200

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John Cowan wrote:
> "In the DTD iff in the instance" is certainly true. The application
> need not use them if it uses something similar to my namespace
> prefix remapper. Perhaps I should have an ability to declare a
> prefix to be attached to unprefixed names, but I don't really see
> the point of it.

I was going to suggest such a function (a prefix for unprefixed names), but then
realized I didn't know what the rules were. For the moment, leave it out and
let applications implement it locally if they want to -- it's not difficult. In
the future, it might be a nice backward compatibility tool.

-- Ron Bourret

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