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At 03:45 PM 12/18/99 -0500, David Megginson wrote: >That said, I think that the best solution in SAX2 will be to allow >either or both Namespace-qualified and raw XML names. People seem to >want both, and although I *strongly* disagree, DOM2 has decided to >provide what should be irrelevant information about the original >prefix used. Despite David's irrational prejudice against prefixes (I'd like to be able to round-trip documents through SAX), I think the proposal here does the job nicely. It'll satisfy the bizarre demands of the XLink folk that we use their namespace on attributes any place we create links in our own documents, without placing undue stress on programmers. I think allowing for both styles will make it much easier to handle the transition between eras that we've been facing for nearly a year now, and might actually encourage more people to use namespaces who hadn't been thus far. Elegant, no, not completely. But remember that worse is better is important! Simon St.Laurent XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. Building XML Applications Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical Sharing Bandwidth / Cookies http://www.simonstl.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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