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Re: Re: [Sax-devel] Showstopper issue with new Attribute text

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• Subject: Re: Re: [Sax-devel] Showstopper issue with new Attribute text
• From: ari@c... (K. Ari Krupnikov)
• Date: 17 Mar 2004 22:28:23 -0800
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Bob Foster <bob@o...> writes:

> Emmanuil Batsis (Manos) wrote:
> > Ummmm, sorry if this sounds stupid but why do xmlns declarations
> > have to be reported as attributes? Why do they have to be reported
> > at all?
> 
> That was exactly my question. Why are xmlns declarations reported as
> attributes? XSLT has it right.

There are (broken but real) SAX applications that only work when
http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes is true. I've just
spent a week worth of evenings trying to figure out why Apache Batik
disregards xmlns:svg declarations, see [1] and the thread that
followed. The ContenetHandler ignores startPrefixMapping() callbacks
and relies on xmlns attributes. When I wrote a workaround that
inserted xmlns attributes back into the event stream, I was confronted
with the same question, which namespace to report these attributes in,
if any.

Like I said, I believe Batik is broken in this respect, but it is
a real application.

Ari.

[1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=batik-users@x...&msgNo=3588

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