On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 16:34, Wendall Cada wrote:
I agree about there being more powerful methods than a DTD. My point is that I disagree about the URI not needing to correspond to an actual page.
The stance of the W3C is that namespce URIs (IRIs) need not refer to the location of a specific existing resource (consider that URNs are permitted).
See also the relevent section of the XML Namespaces FAQ:
http://www.rpbourret.com/xml/NamespacesFAQ.htm#q12_3
It would be completely acceptable to leave it out, but putting invalid DTD information in the files does produce errors. Just as a invalid DTD will produce errors with any XML document.
So are you going to continue to produce valid files that fail to validate because of invalid information in the files with Inkscape?
I do agree that we should either include a DTD ( + internal subset ) against which our documents will validate, or none at all.
-mental