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Bill la Forge wrote: > One of the problems with DOM/namespace is the difficulty of manipulating > the tree while tracking namespace scoping. A partially lazy approach seems to work: > > 1. Do NOT make any namespace transformations while building the tree. > Instead, propagate the xmlns attributes to all children. (Use the inheritance filter.) > > 2. Manipulate the tree as desired. > > 3. Layer additional methods onto the DOM (you can either subclass things or > use static methods) for accessing the unique name based on the xmlns attributes > attached to the Element being accessed. > > 4. When converting from the DOM to SAX events or when creating a document from the > DOM, drop xmlns attributes which are assigned the same value in the parent element. The issue here is using the standard DOM interfaces to do the job. If you subclass the DOM and use this new type you defined to manage namespaces, then you might as well not use the DOM at all because this is a proprietary feature. Tyler 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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