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James Clark <jjc@j...> writes: > > Tim Bray <tbray@t...> writes: > > > > > So I think it would be cleaner to deal with the fact that names > > > can have two parts, and not kludge them together with {} marks. > > > -Tim > > I tend to agree: pasting the namespace URI and local name together > is a hack. Perhaps it's justified for backwards compatibility. (I > did it myself in expat for this reason, so I can't really complain > if SAX2 does it.) It turns out that it's a very difficult decision, and in the end, someone's life has to end up being harder. > For some applications (for example, layering DOM2 on top of SAX2), it's > really useful to have prefixes as well. So I would rather see: > > final class Name { > public String getNamespaceURI(); > public String getLocalName(); > public String getPrefix(); > } To make this really useful, however, we should add equals(), intern(), and hashCode() methods, and that leads to a different (and trickier) should equals() and hashCode() consider the prefix, or not? People will get really surprising results if {"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml", "a", ""} equals() {"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml", "a", "html"} but it is counterintuitive that the two are not equal from a normal processing perspective. Nasty business, really. All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/ 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 unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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