Ronald Bourret wrote:
>  
>  james anderson wrote:
>  
 ...
>  > How is one to use a declaration with indefinite scope to emulate the
>  > lexical scope of attribute-based declarations within the
>  > document entity?
>  
>  One doesn't. Why is this a requirement? (Note that the proposed
>  validation DTD is no different from other schema languages in this
>  respect. Neither is intended to perform lexical validation of QNames.)
>  

If this is true, then one eliminates those document forms which exhibit synonomy and/or homo
graphy from the set of conforming
documents. Which exclused exactly those documents for which one really needs the machinery e
ntailed by namespaces.

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