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> In principle (the principle of least surprise), it's very bad > behaviour for two objects to be == in C++ or equals() in Java if any > of their publicly-accessible fields differ. Think of sets, for > example. In this instance though your level of surprise is going to relate to how familiar you are with the Namespaces spec. After reading it I'd be surprised if two QNames with the same URIs and same local parts aren't the considered equal. The problem though boils down to how often, in reality, XML instances will have the same Namespace declared twice, with different prefixes. I'd have thought this would be pretty unlikely. In a data interchange context standardising prefixes for Namespaces would mitigate this 'problem' and would probably have beneficial side-effects as well. In a document authoring context I can't imagine using the same Namespace with two prefixes, except by accident. Readibility (of the XML) is reduced with Namespaces anyway, sprinkling additional prefixes around makes this worse. 2-penneth worth. L. 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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