Re: [xml-dev] Rethinking namespaces, attribute remapping

I'm familiar with DT4DTD, and I think it's a great piece of work.
On re-reading it, I'm amazed at how short and simple it is.
Sadly, it doesn't seem to have gained much traction.

-Wayne Steele


>From: Sam Hunting <>
>To: Wayne Steele <>
>CC: , 
>Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Rethinking namespaces, attribute remapping
>Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 14:10:26 -0400 (EDT)
>
> > think there's more support for dropping DTDs alltogether.
> >
> > One trick that people have used for ages to indicate data types in DTDs 
>is
> > through parameter entities.
> >
> > <!ENTITY % integer "CDATA" >
> > <!ENTITY % uri     "CDATA" >
> > <!ATTLIST foo
> >           bar  %integer; #IMPLIED
> >           href %uri;     #IMPLIED>
> >
> > This works great for human documentation, but is not especially machine
> > processable.
> >
> > I wonder if it's worth more thought to try and bless a way of doing 
>this, to
> > provide more meaning to attributes?
>
>One way is at http://www.w3.org/TR/dt4dtd ("Datatypes for DTDs
>(DT4DTD) 1.0").


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