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Re: RE: Namespaces Best Practice

• From: Joe English <jenglish@f...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 10:43:56 -0700

Evan Lenz wrote:

> More significant than an analogy with programming practice is how XPath and
> XSLT model namespaces. For every in-scope namespace binding at a given
> element, there is a namespace node. This has two immediate practical
> implications: 1) performance may degrade as the number of namespace nodes
> proliferates, and 2) any copy of that element into the result tree will
> include all of its namespace nodes.


I think that any sensible Infoset implementation wouldn't
actually allocate storage for each namespace node.
Instead, it would synthesize a list of namespace nodes from
the in-scope namespace declaration nodes on demand.


--Joe English

  jenglish@f...

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