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Re: Partyin' like it's 1999

• To: Joe English <jenglish@f...>
• Subject: Re: Partyin' like it's 1999
• From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 07:58:19 -0400
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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Joe English wrote:

> When I complain about namespaces, it's just the opposite:
> I *don't* want to have to use URI/localname pairs everywhere.
> I'd rather treat element type names and attribute names
> as simple, atomic strings.  This is possible with a sane API,
> but most XML APIs aren't sane.
> 

Interesting. What would such a sane API look like? Are you envisioning 
something more along the lines of XPath/XQuery/XSLT where the program 
has its own list of namespace bindings that it uses to transparently 
resolve qualified names? Or are you thinking more of something like 
DOM1/SAX1 that pretty much ignores namespace bindings?


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    • From: "Alessandro Triglia" <sandro@m...>
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