Hi Sebastian,

At 08:17 PM 10/3/00 +0100, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>unless I am going made, attributes can't have namespaces, do they? a
>namespace *is* an attribute. I do not think your example above is possible.

Actually, according to http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xml-names-19990114/
(the XML Namespaces Rec), they can. I won't opine whether it's you or
someone else who's going mad. Of course, in a namespace-aware process,
namespace declarations aren't attributes, they are only dressed that way.

But I'm not sure what Dieter wants to do with namespaces that he needs an
amended DTD for. That only opens a can of worms (IMHO). He can certainly
use them in any case as long as he doesn't validate. If he does want to
validate, TEI practice already allows you to extend without worrying about
the namespace. Nor does there seem to be much of an evolved XML best
practice that takes advantage of namespaces for ad-hoc extension of tag
sets (is there?).

Cheers,
Wendell


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