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• To: "Mike Champion" <mc@x...>,"Margarita Isayeva" <isayevam@y...>,"bob mcwhirter" <bob@w...>
• Subject: RE: A multi-step approach on defining object-oriented nature of DOM
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 17:23:51 -0700
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
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• Thread-topic: A multi-step approach on defining object-oriented nature of DOM

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Champion [mailto:mc@x...] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 4:15 PM
> To: Margarita Isayeva; bob mcwhirter
> Cc: xml-dev@l...
> Subject: Re:  A multi-step approach on defining 
> object-oriented nature of DOM
> 
> [OK, "an" infoset, not "the" InfoSet as far as namespaces are 
> concerned! Dare, if you want a concrete illustration of why 
> namespaces are problematic, consider how differently they are 
> represented in the various specs.]


The fact that namespace declarations and in-scope namespaces are treated
differently in various W3C specs is something I am familiar with and
have written about[0]. However this is not something that is equates to
DIFFICULTY in dealing with namespaces given that Joe Blow developer
doesn't spend his time reading W3C specs. I read on average 10 - 20
posts a day on our XML related newsgroups and when I hear about
DIFFICULTY with namespaces it typically takes two flavors of questions

A.) Why does adding a default namespace to my XML document break my
previously working XPath query? 

B.) Is the namespace the location of the schema for the document? 



[0] http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnexxml/html/xml05202002.asp

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