Re: [ANNOUNCE] New MicroXML draft available

But say I were to add to my tutorial on MicroXML this

feature of any prefix being allowed in attribute names

(at present it just allows the xml: prefix, as per James

Clark's revised MicroXML spec), this would mean

having to include a lengthy and complex treatment of

XML Namespaces to cater for the fact that, with this

attribute prefix feature, namespace declarations other

than just the simple 'xmlns="..."' will start appearing in

MicroXML documents. Just allowing the xml: attributes

was fine with me; I'm not 100% sure on allowing other

prefixes though. I understand their benefits but the

cost of including 'xmlns:foo="...bar..."' namespace

declarations makes me uncomfortable with them.

 

Cheers

 

Steve

 

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Stephen D Green

On 13 July 2011 18:56, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:

Stephen D Green scripsit:

> What is required of a parser handling prefixed and namespaced
> attributes in MicroXML?

Nothing at all, except that attribute names may contain a colon, whereas
element names must not.

The MicroLark parser can provide an object from which element objects
are pulled, or can push element objects to a content handler, or can
construct a tree of element objects.  In any of these cases, one can
use the getNamespace method to search along the ancestor-or-self axis
for the nearest appropriate namespace declaration.  If you think this
is too slow, you can create a subclass of Element that overrides the
getNamespace method to memoize its results, and use an ElementFactory to
tell the parser to instantiate your class rather than Element itself.

(One of the irritating non-features of SAX is that it doesn't expose
the parser's element stack, forcing the application to keep its own.
MicroLark push and pull parsing does expose the stack, though Ghu help
you if you mutate it in any way.)

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