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Re: Proposed genx changes

• To: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Subject: Re: Proposed genx changes
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 18:23:59 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l... DEV <xml-dev@l...>
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At 2:15 PM -0800 3/11/04, Tim Bray wrote:

>6. There's a new call
>genxAddAttributeWithQName(genxWriter w, genxAttribute a, 
>genxNamespace ns, utf8 value)
>where the ns prefix and "value" arg are put together to make qname 
>attribute value.
>

Again, this reeks of featuritis. It would work for only the most 
basic cases. Some uses of W3C schemas, almost none of XSLT and XPath. 
I suggest ditching this method and just letting the client choose 
write the namespace prefix like any other text. After all, the output 
is neither malformed, namespace malformed, or non-canonical if the 
client supplies the wrong prefix for attribute values or element 
content.
-- 

   Elliotte Rusty Harold
   elharo@m...
   Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA

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