[relaxng-user] embedding DocBook in another schema

[tbrown at nrri.umn.edu]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:

>
> On Mar 10, 2005, at 10:26 AM, tbrown at nrri.umn.edu wrote:
>
>> I was suprised though that within a DocBook element I still had to specify 
>> the namespace.  E.g. nxml-mode requires (in the instance xml file)
>> 
>> {db:para}{db:itemizedlist} ... {/db:itemizedlist}{/db:para}
>> 
>> rather than
>> 
>> {db:para}{itemizedlist} ... {/itemizedlist}{/db:para}
>
> That's just how namespaces in XML work.  In:
>
> <db:para>
>  <itemizedlist/>
> </db:para>
>
> Itemizedlist does not have a namespace.
>
> However, just as with XML in general, in RNG you can declare a default 
> namespace.

Ah, I have a top-level default namespace, but it didn't occur to me 
to re-declare the default namespace, like

<para xmlns="db">
   <itemizedlist/>
<para>

which lets me leave out all the db: verbosity, thanks for the nudge.

> BTW, you know v5 of DocBook (now in testing as DocBook NG) is namespaced; 
> right?

I'm not sure which one I downloaded, I'll check.

Cheers -Terry

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