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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: SAX: two alternatives for namespaces
 On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, David Megginson wrote: > What changes to SAX 1.0 are required to support two-part names? > > 2. New Interface > > Create a new SAX interface to represent a two-part name: I vote for something like this (2). I am in the camp that as much work should be done by the XML processor as possible, rather than the application. I think this is more of a processor level feature rather than an add on. As a user, I don't mind another interface. I like SAX's design, it is extremely simple to use. I think one of the things that makes SAX easy to use is that it doesn't force me to use all the functionality, I can use DocumentHandler without having a clue about DTDHandler, EntityResolver, etc. So yet another interface doesn't bother me. And on that note... I strongly encourage adding a toString() to this Name interface, and having it return the full name just as before. As an application writer this would allow me to easily get the old funtionality from the new interface using a simple String cast, effectively allowing me to ignore namespaces if I don't care about them. Naturally I think version 2 of SAX should try to have as minimal an impact on version 1 features as possible. I think wherever possible it should extend interfaces by adding methods rather than changing existing ones. On the other hand I think that although that makes sence for providing support for something like comments, namespaces are to integraded for this approach and I can't see a better way to do it in this scenario. As far as my HXP parser goes, well, I plan on adding SAX 1 support as soon as I can, and had planned on namespace support anyhow, so I welcome this simple addition. Both of your proposals require the parser writer to support Namespaces, and as for parsers that don't - fix them :-) --- Chris Hubick mailto:chris@h... http://www.hubick.com/ xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) 
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