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On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Ronald Bourret wrote: > Lars Marius Garshol wrote: > > By the way, I was a little surprised to read that expat does not pass xmlns > attributes to the application. I had always assumed that attributes were > part of the document's data and therefore the processor was required to > pass them to the application. [...] A pragmatic reason for passing on the xmlns:xyz information is that some applications might want to go beyond what 'Namespaces in XML' itself provides and use similarly abbreviated values _inside_ data attributes instead of full URIs (eg. for data types), and make use of the XMLNS info when doing so. eg. <ABC dt:dt="http://xmlschemas.org/useful/datatypes/Float>22.2232</ABC> versus <ABC dt:dt="USEFUL:Float">22.2232</ABC> (where USEFUL has an xmlns:USEFUL declaration somewhere) By cutting out this information at such a low level, applications won't be able to consider doing this sort of thing. Dan xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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