Re: psgml and namespaces ... I know ...

On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 17:34 +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> Dear listmates
> 
> this is not merely to produce some traffic in this otherwise
> alarmingly quiet list, but also out of sheer exhaustion:
> 
> I know, psgml supports neither schemas nor namespaces for XML (and
> nobody seems inclined to implement either, sadly, although this is
> more than understandable at least for the former). But is it possible
> to tweak it just a little bit just so it recognises the colon
> character as a letter or so, i. e. so it does not pack up when
> encountering attribute names such as xml:lang? 

(add-hook 'sgml-mode-hook   ; make all this stuff SGML-specific
(function (lambda()
              ; everything in here will only apply in SGML mode
(define-key sgml-mode-map [f5] 'sgml-comment)
; From Petr Flynn
;; Add '_' as a legal name character for PSGML
		      (defun my-psgml-hook ()
			(require 'psgml-parse)
			(modify-syntax-entry ?_ "w" sgml-parser-syntax))
		      (add-hook 'sgml-mode-hook 'my-psgml-hook)
;; Do the same again: add ':' as a legal name character for PSGML
;;This enables the use of namespace syntax in element type names.

		      (defun her-psgml-hook ()
			(require 'psgml-parse)
			(modify-syntax-entry ?: "w" sgml-parser-syntax))
		      (add-hook 'sgml-mode-hook 'her-psgml-hook)
)))
	   ;; End of sgml specific hooks.

No thanks to me.
Thank Peter Flynn.

HTH DaveP



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