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On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Tim Bray wrote: > Actually, as I just finished arguing in response to your other note, > I think what people care about is having the prefix/uri mapping available, > not knowing what prefix was actually used. Have I missed something? Is > there an application scenario where you get > > <a xmlns:a="http://x.com" xmlns:b="http://x.com"> > <a:foo /><b:bar /> > </a> > > ...and you actually care that the foo and bar had different prefixes? > I'd find that really hard to believe. I can think of one such class of applications: editors or other tools that transform human-generated XML documents into other human-edited and read XML documents. A near-perennial question on some of the Usenet XML newsgroups is how to keep a tool from transforming <element></element> into <element/>. Admittedly, such applications are going to be a minority, and support for such requirements should probably lurk in the corners of the interface rather than being the first thing anybody sees (we do *not* want to encourage developers to think of prefix names as the "official" identifiers for namespaces!; I have a depressing hunch that a majority of people who use XSLT believe that "<xsl:for-each>" is *the* proper name for one of that language's elements, rather than one of several), but a complete lack of support for such requirements will, IMHO, encourage people to hack-parse with regexes or the like in such applications, which is, again IMHO, not a Good Thing (and, YAIMHO, a Worse Thing than indulging people's religious beliefs about how a document's "source code" should "look"). 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 unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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