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SAX2: Namespace separators

• From: David Megginson <david@m...>
• To: XML Dev <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 17:08:08 -0400 (EDT)

John Cowan writes:

 > I foresee problems with the SAX2 namespace feature.  In particular,
 > defaulting to a null separator means that some universal names
 > become confusible.  Thus
 > 
 > 	url="http://me.net/foobar" name="scope"
 > 	url="http://me.net/foobars" name="cope"

Agreed.  I arbitrarily chose to default to the null separator for two
reasons:

1. because RDF does it, and it's the only Recommendation that has
   anything to say about the specifics of concatenation; and

2. to stay out of any religious wars against which character should be 
   used as the separator.

The RDF concatenation does lead to nasty problems, as John suggests.
I could live with [space], if everyone promises not to flame me (it's
one character that's virtually guaranteed not to be allowed in XML
names in any future version of the spec).


All the best,


David

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