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Re: Declaring the XML namespace

• To: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...>
• Subject: Re: Declaring the XML namespace
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 21:34:09 -0600
• Cc: "'xml-dev'" <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: Message from "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...> of "Thu, 11 Jul 2002 08:47:11 EDT." <002301c228d9$13558060$fe193044@tbp1>
• Sender: uche.ogbuji@f...

> [Elliotte Rusty Harold]
> >...
> > According to the SAX JavaDoc,
> >
> <http://www.saxproject.org/apidoc/org/xml/sax/ContentHandler.html#startPrefi
> xMapping(java.lang.String,%20java.lang.String)>
> >
> > There should never be start/endPrefixMapping events for the "xml"
> > prefix, since it is predeclared and immutable.
> >
> > Thus Piccolo is wrong. You should report a bug to Piccolo's maintainer.
> >
> 
> This conclusion is not clear to me.  If the "xml" prefix is by definition
> bound to that one namespace, seems to me that it __should__ be reported
> whether or not a namespace declaration exists for it in a document.  If the
> prefix is used and there is no declaration, the namespace should be reported
> anyway.  If an incorrect namespace were used, what would be the right error
> behavior?  Report the right namespace and continue?
> 
> I do not know how most parsers handle it, though.  I remember hacking 4xslt
> or 4xpath (I think it was) once because it insisted on having the namespace
> supplied and generally it is not supplied  that in practice.

???

Either this was full eons ago, or you managed to trigger a bug far in the corner somewhere.  At any rate, neither a search on the mailing lists or SourceForge turns up a bug report from you on this.

Do you have any more detail?


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