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Re: [Sax-devel] Re: SAX survey: expected local name for non-namespace qu

• To: "David Brownell" <david-b@p...>,"Arnaud Le Hors" <lehors@u...>,"Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Subject: Re: [Sax-devel] Re: SAX survey: expected local name for non-namespace qualified elements
• From: "Rob Lugt" <roblugt@e...>
• Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 21:14:55 +0100
• Cc: <xerces-j-dev@x...>,<sax-devel@l...>,<xml-dev@l...>
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Simon St.Laurent wrote
>
> In the interest of application portability, I'd recommend requiring
> reporting the name of the element as localName when namespace processing
is
> turned off.
>

FWIW, I Agree.  I think of the local name as being the name of the element,
minus the namespace prefix (if any).  When namespace processing is disabled,
there is no prefix - so localName should be equal to the literal name of the
element.

~Rob

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