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These are namespace directives, not references to external DTDs.

• acqq 13y ago
  The problem is, whenever you have some link anywhere and it is assumed that it should be refreshed sometimes, how can you know that you shouldn't load the more current version? If you write something like a DLL or library why not leave it to the expert: let the IE try to fetch it, and if it already fetched, it will return it from its own cache! Brilliant, problem solved! Except when that happens from 144 instances all the time and IE needs some windows creations at the start which is what Bruce seems to manage to trigger.
  • shawnz 13y ago
    To expand on what the parent commenter was saying: namespace directives aren't meant to be accessed; they are just used as a unique identifier.
    • acqq 13y ago
      Yes. I'm old enough to remember the times though when even some of the creators of the standard still thought otherwise: https://web.archive.org/web/20060613090946/http://textuality.com/tag/Issue8.html https://web.archive.org/web/20060613090946/http://textuality... "Given that namespaces have definitive material, and that such definitive material is typically available on the Web, and that namespace names may be "http:"-class URIs, it is a grievous waste of potential if it is not possible to use the namespace name in retrieving the definitive material." And in order to do all the processing and transformations popular at the time somewhere there should be the copies of the documents specified with the URI's. Bruce detected some loads from some documents stored in the DLLs, locally.