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Re: SAX2: Namespace proposal

• From: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• To: XMLDev list <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 11:46:09 -0600

David Megginson wrote:
> 
> The classic use case is a transformation where the result will be
> still used by an author, sort of an XML sed.  I don't find this case
> particularly persuasive, but clearly the DOM WG did, and as a result,
> the Infoset was constrained to follow.

James also mentioned the case where the output had to be DTD-compatible.
In that case the prefixes used are meaningful because they are what the
DTD expects.
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