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Joe English wrote: > When I complain about namespaces, it's just the opposite: > I *don't* want to have to use URI/localname pairs everywhere. > I'd rather treat element type names and attribute names > as simple, atomic strings. This is possible with a sane API, > but most XML APIs aren't sane. > Interesting. What would such a sane API look like? Are you envisioning something more along the lines of XPath/XQuery/XSLT where the program has its own list of namespace bindings that it uses to transparently resolve qualified names? Or are you thinking more of something like DOM1/SAX1 that pretty much ignores namespace bindings? -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@m... XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim
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