DO NOT REPLY [Bug 16605] - xmlns:my-prefix attribute fails validation when using DTD

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xmlns:my-prefix attribute fails validation when using DTD





------- Additional Comments From keshlam@us.ibm.com  2003-01-30 17:41 -------
Unfortuantely, that is correct behavior. DTDs were written before the namespace 
spec, and are unaware of it. To a DTD, a namespace declaration attribute is just 
another attribute and subject to the same rules.

You can code your DTD to allow a few pre-selected (or pre-bound) prefixes. Or 
you can give up DTD validation, and either switch to Schemas or settle for 
well-formed documents.

(This is a well-known nuisance. It was raised while namespaces were still under 
development and they decided to accept it, since the alternative seemed to 
involve starting an XML 2.0 effort. All we can do is live with it and work 
around it.)

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