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On 2/20/07, Shlomo Yona <S.Yona@f...> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm not sure that I understand your comment. > > In the XML instance that I posted: > * is the document well formed? no. it is not well formed. you had a node that started and never stopped - <a:foo xmlns:a="foobar"> > <a:bar xmlns:b="foobar"> > </b:bar> > </a:foo> > Should XML processors be XML-Namespace aware? yes. but the above instance does not follow namespace rules. > > Say I have a schema, is the well-formedness dependent upon the schema?? > no. the validity is dependent on the schema (or whatever method you use to validate with) > What I'm asking is whether or not an XML parser should be namespace aware, and whether or not its capabilities should depend (and how) on a schema. > yes it should be namespace aware, and no its capabilities should not depend on a schema (unless someone comes up with a really clever way to make it depend on a schema in which case it should) > In the example I gave, the namespace information is available in the XML >instance. sure, but the instance is not well formed so I guess in a way that namespace information will be unavailable to pretty much every xml parser out there. Cheers, Bryan Rasmussen
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