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RE: A multi-step approach on defining object-oriented natureof

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• Subject: RE: A multi-step approach on defining object-oriented natureof DOM
• From: Mike Champion <mc@x...>
• Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 20:37:42 -0400
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8/20/2002 8:23:51 PM, "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...> wrote:


>
>The fact that namespace declarations and in-scope namespaces are treated
>differently in various W3C specs is something I am familiar with and
>have written about[0]. However this is not something that is equates to
>DIFFICULTY in dealing with namespaces given that Joe Blow developer
>doesn't spend his time reading W3C specs. I read on average 10 - 20
>posts a day on our XML related newsgroups and when I hear about
>DIFFICULTY with namespaces it typically takes two flavors of questions

They don't find it a teensy bit confusing that a namespace declaration looks
and smells like an attribute in XML syntax and the DOM, but the Infoset (and SAX?)
says that declarations aren't in the attribute list for an element, and 
XPath treats the in-scope namespace as a non-attribute property of 
an element and doesn't (IIRC) represent the declaration at all?

They aren't confused when HTTP says that various capitalizations of
the same URI retrieve the same representation of a resource, but that
XML namespace processors consider them distinct?

Your users are a lot smarter than I am!

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