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At 19:41 10/04/2001 +0100, Al Snell wrote: >Correct me if I'm wrong - there is absolutely no semantic significance in >the choice of namespace prefix, right? > ><foo:hello xmlns:foo="asdf" /> > >...identical to... > ><bar:hello xmlns:bar="asdf" /> > >...my encoding will discard the prefixes foo and bar; will this in any way >ever matter, even slightly? If you want to do general purpose binarization/compression, it could matter for various reasons: - round-trippability. People like using prefixes that mean something (to them). It's easier to use xhtml:foo consistently than a1029:foo. - xpath doesn't play well with namespaces in _some_ contexts. There are cases when an xpath expression relies on a given prefix. - a good number of DTDs use a fixed prefix - XSLT would bother, notably when using exclude-element-prefixes as well as when outputting XSLT. - the xmlns and xml prefixes are special, and I think must appear as such (the former's case depended on whether one looked at xml-namespaces or at DOM2 last time I looked, but I hear that issue is to be resolved). That's all I can think of off the top of my head. I'd say losing that information is probably a bad idea. _______________________________________________________________________ Robin Berjon <robin@k...> -- CTO k n o w s c a p e : // venture knowledge agency www.knowscape.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The first myth of management is that it exists.
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