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Consensus? expected local name for non-namespace qualifiedelements

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• Subject: Consensus? expected local name for non-namespace qualifiedelements
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 08:12:30 -0400
• Cc: xerces-j-dev@x..., xml-dev@l...
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I've just returned from Kentucky and read through the messages of the 
last few days. There's clearly a significant amount of disagreement 
on what does and what should happen when namespace processing is 
turned *off*. However, there seems to be nearly unanimous agreement 
on what happens when namespace processing is turned *on*. In 
particular, I am prepared to offer the following tentative consensus:

When the feature http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces has the value 
true (as it does by default), SAX 2.0 parsers *must* report a 
non-empty local name for all elements and attributes, whether 
namespace qualified or not. A parser that reports the local name as 
the empty string when http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces is true 
is simply not compliant with the SAX 2.0 specification.

Does anyone want to stick their hand up and disagree with this statement?
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