• To: michael.h.kay@n...
• Subject: Re: Declaring the XML namespace
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 21:38:36 -0600
• Cc: "'xml-dev'" <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: Message from "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...> of "Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:35:46 BST." <000701c228c6$b7696ad0$6401a8c0@pcukmka>
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> This is probably the kind of thing that only interests conformance
> testers, but:
> 
> With the following XML document, I get three different results from
> different parsers.
> 
> <doc xmlns:xml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"/>
> 
> Crimson rejects it.
> AElfred accepts it, and doesn't notify the namespace to the SAX2
> ContentHandler.
> Piccolo accepts it, and does notify the namespace to the SAX2
> ContentHandler.
> 
> Any opinions on which is right?

I think it's pretty clear that Crimson has a bug here.  I find Piccolo's notification quite surprising.

Just a couple of brief results from Python parsers:

$ cat foo.xml 
<doc xmlns:xml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"/>
$ 4xml foo.xml
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><doc/>
$ xmlproc_parse foo.xml
xmlproc version 0.70

Parsing 'foo.xml'
Parse complete, 0 error(s) and 0 warning(s)

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