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On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 11:13, Sean McGrath wrote: > At 06:35 30/01/2002 -0800, Tim Bray wrote: > >At 09:09 AM 30/01/02 +0000, Sean McGrath wrote: > > >And its positively *scary* the number of apps out there in the real world > > >that have wired the processing to the prefix - not the fully qualified > > >name. > > > >Ouch, really?!? This calls for some serious jumping up and down > >and shrieking. Name some names, Sean. -Tim > > No can do on xml-dev. Consulting clients, privacy etc. I've seen it a few times - running SAX on QName alone - in sample code sent to me by random questioners who've seen my SAX filters. If I remember right, they were asking about how to deal with processing nested elements in SAX, not the namespace issue. I don't believe this is at all uncommon, and it tends to work in closed environments where prefix-changing is really unlikely. Yesterday someone asked if you could skip the namespace declarations for attributes and just use the URI. I still haven't figured out what exactly that meant, but think I set them straight. I don't think any of my questioners are likely to hurt anyone, so I'll leave them in the warm glow of anonymity. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com
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