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Michael Kay wrote: > > [Joe English] > > 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? The solution outlined above *does* work in the real world. Nobody expects an XML database (or any XML processor, for that matter) to preserve things like attribute order, whitespace in tags, CDATA section boundaries, or [comment] information items. It's a bad idea to design vocabularies where these things are significant, and almost nobody does. Most XML applications don't care about the [in-scope namespaces] property either, and can be safely stored in a database that fails to preserve it. --Joe English jenglish@f...
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