[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: SAX2: Namespace proposal
The DOM WG put some amount of time into designing the DOM Level 2 namespace support to cover the case where a DOM Level 1 client application (e.g., script) runs in a DOM Level 2 implementation. So the script doesn't know about namespaces, but the implementation does. It should still be possible for these scripts to run properly. We didn't cover the converse case; scripts that need Level 2 should ask whether the implementation supports what they need first. Another use case was to allow processes that don't use prefixes at all (e.g., the XML is never serialized) to use the namespace support in the DOM. The prefix is, in the DOM, considered to be syntactic sugar, but the Level 1 constraints meant we couldn't lose prefixes altogether. I think it would be good for SAX2 to supply (perhaps as an option) the information the DOM implementations need; I've had quite a few questions about CDATA sections in SAX for example, since the DOM exposes these and SAX1 doesn't. Lauren 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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