• From: Richard Salz <rsalz@u...>
• To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@i...>
• Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 20:09:14 -0500

> I am 95% certain that the pain caused by allowing
> prefix declarations only on the root element would be far less than
> the pain caused by allowing redeclarations of prefixes.

If there weren't already a huge installed base, perhaps. But it would 
certainly put pretty tight restrictions on "streaming" where something 
like XSLT doesn't buffer the whole result tree in memory first.

        /r$

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• References:
  • Re: Lesson Learned: Use namespaces for both markup anddata
    • From: Dave Pawson <davep@d...>
  • RE: Lesson Learned: Use namespaces for both markup anddata
    • From: "Michael Sokolov" <sokolov@i...>
  • RE: Lesson Learned: Use namespaces for both markup anddata
    • From: "Paul Spencer" <xml-dev-list@b...>
  • Re: Lesson Learned: Use namespaces for both markup anddata
    • From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@i...>