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Michael Kay wrote: >>This preserves the semantics according to [REC-xml-names] -- >>it's the namespace URI that's important, not the prefix -- >>and preserves *most* of the Infoset semantics. ... >> >>This last might be problematic ... >> >> > >If we didn't have prefixes-in-content then we wouldn't have a problem. If we >only had to preserve *most* of the semantics then we wouldn't have a >problem. > >Putting aside wishful thinking about what might have been, does anyone have >a solution that works in the real world? > > I found Joe's pledge for sanity very helpful. For prefixes in content, it can be enough to save a document-wide mapping from prefixes to namespaces. Of course this does not allow redeclarations etc, and rightly so, I find. The annoying exceptions can very clearly be marked by any implementation as not supported, and it is quite easy to turn an unsupported XML document into a supported one (changing, moving prefixes). People *are* indeed always using the same prefixes (xsl, xsd, xsi...) and declaring them in the root... regards, Burak Emir http://lamp.epfl.ch/~buraq
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