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> -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Champion [mailto:mc@x...] > Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 5:38 PM > To: xml-dev@l... > Subject: RE: A multi-step approach on defining > object-oriented nature of DOM > > > 8/20/2002 8:23:51 PM, "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...> wrote: > > > They don't find it a teensy bit confusing that a namespace > declaration looks and smells like an attribute in XML syntax > and the DOM, but the Infoset (and SAX?) says that > declarations aren't in the attribute list for an element, and > XPath treats the in-scope namespace as a non-attribute property of > an element and doesn't (IIRC) represent the declaration at all? Like I said Joe Blow developer isn't reading W3C specs. Besides implementers who cares about the infoset? Secondly I've never seen any of our users mention attempting to query for a namespace decl. > They aren't confused when HTTP says that various > capitalizations of the same URI retrieve the same > representation of a resource, but that XML namespace > processors consider them distinct? I've not seen any complaints about people expecting namespace decls to allow various capitalizations to refer to the same URI as DNS does with HTTP URLs. > Your users are a lot smarter than I am! Probably because they don't bother to read the specs and look for philosophical loop holes like a number of people on XML-DEV. -- PITHY WORDS OF WISDOM Putting in a request to go home early is the best way to jinx yourself and end up working overtime. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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