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Re: [Sax-devel] Re: SAX survey: expected local name for non-namespace qu

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• Subject: Re: [Sax-devel] Re: SAX survey: expected local name for non-namespace qualified elements
• From: Robin Berjon <robin@k...>
• Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 10:54:35 +0200
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On Friday 31 May 2002 18:14, David Brownell wrote:
> > What is the localName in "foo:bar" and "foo:bar:foo" which are legal
> > element names in XML 1.0 and should therefore be passed through when
> > namespaces are off?
>
> I'd expect that localName would still be defined to be the syntactic
> "strip off the only prefix" transform of qName that it is in other
> cases ... so "foo:bar" would become "bar", and "foo:bar:foo" would
> be an error (normally reported as an empty localName).

I don't think that makes much sense... If namespaces are off, then there is 
no such thing as a prefix to be stripped off. And raising an error for the 
latter would be a strange decision knowing that it's a legal name when 
namespaces are off.

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