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Re: Re: [Sax-devel] Showstopper issue with new Attributetext

• To: Dennis Sosnoski <dms@s...>
• Subject: Re: Re: [Sax-devel] Showstopper issue with new Attributetext
• From: Bob Foster <bob@o...>
• Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 17:30:37 -0600
• Cc: mbatsis@n..., David Megginson <dmeggin@a...>,XML Developers List <xml-dev@l...>,SAX Developers' List <sax-devel@l...>
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Dennis Sosnoski wrote:
 > Bob Foster wrote:
 >> That was exactly my question. Why are xmlns declarations reported as
 >> attributes? XSLT has it right.
 > I guess the reason for this is historical, in that
 > http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes feature has been around
 > for a while and presumably some people are using it. In general it seems
 > like a really bad idea, given that SAX reports startPrefixMapping() and
 > endPrefixMapping().
 >
 > Since the feature is there I agree there should be a standard way of
 > reporting the default namespace as an attribute to anyone who choses to
 > process their XML in this way. My vote would be for David's alternative
 > "b) an attribute with the Namespace URI "http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/"
 > and no local name;" where "no local name" in the context of this
 > paragraph should be interpreted as meaning a zero-length String.

Where did the "http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/" URI come from? The 
Namespaces In XML spec specifically says: "The prefix xmlns is used only 
for namespace bindings and is not itself bound to any namespace name."

Am I missing some errata, or is there some complexity-multiplying going 
on here? It sure seems like a SAX feature that should be dropped should 
not be used to justify contradicting the namespaces recommendation.

Bob

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