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Robert Koberg wrote: > ... > Maybe I am missing the utility of this because of too simple an > example, but why would you do this? Robert, I suspect my example was too simple. I'm just using an element from the html namespace as an example to illustrate the masking. I start most of my processing pipelines by masking all the namespace decls and masking all prefixes. I do it so that all the weirdness about namespace inheritance, bleed, race conditions etc. all gets neutralized. I can then proceed to re-arrange/search over the instance without worrying about what namespaces are in scope and what ones are inherited and what ones have nested declarations and what prefixes have multiple different bindings and what prefixes have multiple identical bindings and and and..... I don't want parsers and other XML tools "helping me" by doing a bunch of namespace processing before I get to work with the document. I do a lot of XML processing work where I make changes in-situ : i.e. author/edit-style operations. I also do a lot of XML processing where I need tight control over the input and output syntaxes so that I can detect exactly what has changed. Both of these are greatly simplified by neutralizing the namespaces in my opinion. Sean
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