Re: (dsssl) Hypothetical question on namespaces

[Norman Walsh <ndw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

/ Trent Shipley <tcshipley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> was heard to say:
| Of course, the point is not to be practical, but to pose the problem:
| 
| #t = subset?(SGML XML) 

If you're suggesting that SGML is a subset of XML, that's #f.
XML is a subset of SGML.

| #t = subset(XML XMLnamespace)

XML is a subset of XML+Namespaces

| #f = subset(SGML XMLnamespace)

The relationship between SGML and XML+Namespaces isn't a simple subset.

If you use consistent, explicit, and distinct namespace prefixes,
XML+Namespaces is just like XML (from the point of view of an SGML
parser).

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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