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Hi Steinar, Steinar said: My problem is that I don't see clearly how people are going to use namespaces. That's why I put a "Hm..." there. I suspect that people are going to intermingle stuff from different namespaces, in a way that'll make processing hard. Will stuff from different namespaces always have the same semantics? Or should I expect seperate processesing depending on the context? Didier reply: So, if I understand you well, you think that there is a high probability that people will intermingle elements from different name spaces without mentionning that they are own by a name space? Is it what you mean? In that case, it will be harder to attach the processing of a particular element with a document or event handler. One possible algorith though: a) All event handler are structured as a list. b) each event handler receives the element for interpretation. If the element is recognized then it is processed here we may have a variant and a possible source of conflict: a) if the handler recognize the element and process it, then the element processing is ended. CON: the element could be part of a name space and then processed. This element also contains an attribute from an other name space (ex: an xlink:type attribute) and therefore, the element is not processed by the event handler attached to the element by the attribute. b) the handler always go through the whole list. CON if two name space have the same attribute, then it may be improperly processed by the wong event handler. Conclusion: yes, in the absence of architectural form in the XML world, if people do not take the habit to mark their elements with the name space identifier, it may bring some problems. People used to HTML will have problems here. For them we increased the level of complexity. Sound like XML is slowly becomming as complex as SGML :-) Cheers Didier PH Martin mailto:martind@n... http://www.netfolder.com 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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