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Tim Bray wrote: > ... > But what on earth makes anyone think that namespaces would be scoped > in the DOM? The notion arises where one attempts to maintain the prefix information with the DOM element (for example, by virtue of making it available in the interface to the element's identifier). Some people maintain that this, in itself, is a mistake. Others believe that such a feature is indispensible. Were it truly indispensible, it would introduce scoping issues into the DOM model. > The scoping in XML files is purely a syntactic minimization > technique. I.e., if I have a DOM tree modelling the document above > (surely everyone agrees that I get the same DOM tree from both > instances) and I go stick a new "f" element as a child of the 'e' > element, surely it makes no sense to put it in the either the a.b.c > or x.y.z namespaces auto-magically. Among other things, it might > come from some entirely different namespace. > The key is that one can no longer think of it as sticking 'a new "f" element' anywhere. One is permitted to add only "a.b.c:f" elements, or the like. That is, unless one recognizes the legitimacy of the "null" namespace and the intent is to add an element of which the identifier is "in" that namespace. xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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