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Paul Prescod wrote: > Remember we just had an argument about whether to design for the common > case or the special case? Have you ever done this in an application? I > haven't. Still, every XML application in the world must handle namespace > scoping. Every XML _parser_ must handle namespace scoping. Most applications don't care. For applications, I think it's an issue in only three cases (any others?): 1) Moving nodes around and the document uses more than one namespace 2) Using QNames in attribute values/PCDATA. 3) Serializing documents by hand. I suspect this limits the problem to people writing tools. (This is not to minimize the problem. It doesn't look too bad in SAX, where stack-based processing mimics the declarations, but it looks like a real pain in the DOM.) -- Ron
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