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Joe English <jenglish@f...> writes: > Al Snell wrote: > > [using a string table for element and attribute names] > > That's the approach I used in Cost; it works well. An added bonus > is that you can replace string comparisons with pointer comparisons. > > This starts to break down when you throw namespaces into the mix > though, since element and attribute names are no longer simple, > atomic values. For example it's possible that 'foo:bar' and > 'qux:bar' actually represent the same thing, and that an element in > one part of the tree named 'foo:bar' may be _different_ than another > element with the same name in a different part of the tree. > > I haven't yet seen or thought up a fully satisfactory solution to > this problem... In Orchard[1], I use the tuple of (URI,LocalName) for element and attribute names, instead of the QName, and it works great. -- Ken [1] <http://Casbah.org/~kmacleod/orchard/>
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