Bug#259002: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#259002: xmllint doesn't recognize namespace correctly

[Roland Stigge]

On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 11:15, Mike Hommey wrote:
> Roland Stigge wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > the attached file causes the following:
> > 
> > =============================================================================
> > $ xmllint --noout --dtdvalid dia/diagram.dtd Diagram2.dia
> > Diagram2.dia:2: element diagram: validity error : No declaration for
> > attribute xmlns:dia of element diagram
> > =============================================================================
> > 
> > Thanks for considering.
> 
> Quoting Daniel Veillard in 
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2004-March/msg00088.html:
> 
>  > DTD don't know about namespace, all namespace declaration are an
>  > attribute and must be declared as such. This is not a bug, this is
>  > conformance to specs.

Thanks for the hint.

What do think should be done about this (particular dia issue)? Do we
just have to accept this kind of error in cases where namespaces are
declared and the document is validated against a DTD (that doesn't care
about namespaces)?

bye,
  Roland