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> -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Hutchison [mailto:hutch@x...] > Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 8:03 AM > To: Champion, Mike; xml-dev@l... > Subject: Re: Interoperability [long] > > > Care to expand on this? I cannot tell if you are being > serious or ironic Sorry, I was more crabby and obscure than usual yesterday; I had just returned via a red-eye flight from a DOM WG meeting in which we took yet another whack at namespace normalization and in matching up the DOM data model with the XPath data model. The combination of DOM, namespaces, and XPath is likely to sell quite a bit of Prozac in years to come, I fear. In hindsight (and in my personal opinion), the DOM probably should have tried harder to directly expose the prefix that a node was associated with when it was created or parsed; the XPath data model is somewhat cleaner in this regard. On the other hand, by a strict reading of the Namespace spec, we concluded a couple of years ago that this was un-necessary and potentially inefficient. Time will tell, a better conceptualization will probably evolve, and in the meantime, if you are careful and don't assume that various XML-related implementations will somehow do the right thing without being explicitly told, you'll be fine.
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