> Sral, the naive XML developer, is developing an XML application. He
> writes a DTD that embeds John Cowans IBTWSH DTD in a certain place to
> provide for documentation.
[...]
> I can't imagine that the XML WG has failed to think of this, so if
> some kind soul could point out what I have failed to think of here I
> would be most grateful. Thanks.
Neither the original nor the new version of the namespaces spec was
designed to deal with DTD composition. It is possible to write a DTD
that deals with specific, constrained uses of namespaces (and even
hides the namespace machinery in #FIXED attribute values), but it is
not possible to combine DTD fragments arbitrarily.
All the best,
David
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