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Re: Proposed genx changes

• To: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Subject: Re: Proposed genx changes
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 18:21:36 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l... DEV <xml-dev@l...>
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At 2:15 PM -0800 3/11/04, Tim Bray wrote:
>5. There's a new call genxAddQName(genxWriter w, genxNamespace ns, 
>utf8 value) which will emit a QName with the appropriate prefix if 
>you (gack, gag) wanted a QName in Element Content.

This is needless featuritis. Not only is it gag me with a spoon, I've 
almost never seen QNames in element content in practice. They're 
almost always in attribute values. If someone wants the QName in 
element content, they can just emit the prefix as regular text.
-- 

   Elliotte Rusty Harold
   elharo@m...
   Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA

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