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RE: qName/localName confusion

• To: "'Karl Waclawek'" <karl@w...>,"'XML Developers List'" <xml-dev@l...>,"'SAX Developers' List'" <sax-devel@l...>
• Subject: RE: qName/localName confusion
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:28:02 -0000
• In-reply-to: <002a01c40c36$130a0e90$9e539696@citkwaclaww2k>
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#   b.. the qualified name is required when the 
# namespace-prefixes property
#       is true, and is optional when the namespace-prefixes 
# property is false
#       (the default).
# </quote>

In Saxon (as a SAX event consumer) I actually depend on the qname always
being present, despite the fact that SAX doesn't guarantee it. I've never
encountered a parser that doesn't provide it, and I'm reluctant to write
code that incurs a performance penalty (and which I can't readily test) to
guard against the possibility of someone writing such a parser. I think
there's a good case for making the value mandatory.

Michael Kay

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