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• To: 'Mike Champion' <mc@x...>, xml-dev@l..., 'Dare Obasanjo' <dareo@m...>
• Subject: RE: A multi-step approach on defining object-oriented nature of DOM
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 08:28:04 -0500

A lot of the time, they don't get that far.  It just 
breaks and they don't know where to look.  Then they 
start looking and can't find code to copy that just 
works.  Then they start asking questions and get answers 
back from the hallway like "it works for me" or "never 
got that to work; there's a bug somewhere".  This 
takes time and after some time, they type it all back 
in and maybe it works, and if it does, they don't find 
out why.

Dare, namespaces ARE a problem.  If you haven't figured 
that out, you aren't dealing with them in production or 
you aren't facing up to the realities of production users 
who aren't "in the know".  Considering the dominance of 
your products on the desktop, we are here to tell you 
that it is your problem.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Champion [mailto:mc@x...]

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?

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?

Your users are a lot smarter than I am!

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