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At 01:06 PM 12/15/99 -0500, David Megginson wrote: >> 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 >.... >We talked about this a few months ago, but I'd be happy to hear what >people think now. I'm afraid I think this is a hideous idea, and that's an understatement. Even apart from code bloat - having to deal with two parts of a name means twice as much code every place the name matters - I'm really not sure I like the logic behind this approach. There are two cases where I think this approach could be useful. The first is separating components from different namespaces for different processing, which could be a good idea but isn't worth the cost so far as I'm concerned. The second case is downright funny to me at least, situations where you want to discard the namespace entirely and focus only on the local part. This latter approach might have been useful, indeed necessary, if we'd been stuck with a 3-namespace XHTML, but we're not, at least for today. In just about every other situation, I think I'd rather work with a single easily-kludged and un-kludged name that have to make two calls and kludge them together myself. While I think the two part approach might be acceptable _if_ there's an option (heck, SAX2 supports that!) to choose between them, I don't think two parts as the only approach in SAX2 itself is even worth considering. 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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