Lest you think I'm totally negative, I think the way that XML Mind 
associates configurations with documents is quite clever.

One thing that I want to see added to it (unless I just missed it in my 
read of the docs) would be association based on namespaces associated 
with the root element.

For example, in DITA 1.1 we declared the ditaarch namespace for use with 
the DITAArchVersion= attribute, specifically so that DITA documents 
would be unambiguously bound to a DITA-defined namespace. This allows 
reliable recognition of DITA documents regardless of whether or not they 
have an associated DTD or schema or what the DTD or schema is.

In a document with no DTD or schema, you would expect to see this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<concept xmlns:ditaarch="http://dita.oasis-open.org/architecture/2005/";
id="class-attributes"
ditaarch:DITAArchVersion="1.1"  ... >

This document is unambiguously a DITA document and I would like to be 
able to bind a configuration to it based on the namespace declaration 
and existence of the DITAArchVersion= attribute.

Cheers,

Eliot

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