[xquery-talk] DTD Namespaces?

Michael Rys mrys at microsoft.com
Fri Nov 4 09:27:11 PST 2005


In general DTDs are not well-suited for namespace documents. You can
make it work but it is an ugly hack. 

Best regards
Michael

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> I'm supporting an engineer who is doing an evaluation of TigerLogic.
> They are using DTD's that include namespaces. It seems to me that if
> you need namespaces you should be using XML Schema instead. I haven't
> found anything in the XQuery specs about DTD's with namespaces. Does
> anyone have opinions either pro-or-con about using namespaces in a
DTD?
> 
> -Frank
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