RE: xmlns invalid? xt or XSLT problem?

Subject: RE: xmlns invalid? xt or XSLT problem?
From: DPawson@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 20:57:46 +0100
I think I understand that David :-)
That last lines I can echo.

I'm really looking forward to the 'or something'.
I'm sure if schemas were that solid someone
would have come up with something by now???

Regards, DaveP



>If you are doing this:
>>   <xsl:output method="html" encoding="utf-8"/>
>
>then you are using the latest draft so shouldn't be doing this:
>
>>   result-ns=""
>
>which means that you don't absolutely need to do this:
>
>>       xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"; 
>
>and if you don't do that everything will be fine.
>
>
>However even at the best of times may still get this:
>
>> nsgmls tells me that according to the DTD specified,
>> there is no attribute xmlns.
>
>
>To a namespace aware processor
><html:html xmlns:html=... >
>and
><html xmlns=... >
>
>are equivalent expressions, but a validating XML parser using a DTD
>that has an `html' element is going to moan about html:html.
>And will moan about extra namespace attributes added as well if
>the dtd was written before the namespace spec and doesn't allow
>xmlns everywhere.
>
>Basically in namespace world, you give up on DTD validation 
>and pray for
>schemas (or something).
>
>David
>
>
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