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RE: namespace handling models

• To: <bry@i...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: namespace handling models
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 18:25:20 -0000
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• In-reply-to: <200401041747323.SM01020@Debug>
• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

This sounds like lax, skip, and strict respectively. Why invent new
names?

Michael Kay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bry@i... [mailto:bry@i...] 
> Sent: 04 January 2004 17:48
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject:  namespace handling models
> 
> 
> am wondering if anyone can think of any 
> other models for how xml applications handle 
> namespaces that are not in the applications 
> known namespaces than these:
> 
> parse-tree: all elements in the unknown 
> namespace is ignored, and children of the 
> element are parsed.
> 
> ignore-tree: as soon as an element in an 
> unknown namespace is encountered that 
> element and any children are ignored.
> 
> fail: unknown namespaces are a cause for 
> failure. Generally due to validation 
> failure.
> 
> 
> 
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