• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• To: Michael Sokolov <sokolov@i...>
• Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:17:17 +0000

On 18/11/2010 02:25, Michael Sokolov wrote:
> However, although the question seems to be purely academic at this
> point, I'm still wondering why there is an option for namespace-aware=false.

That allows the parser to be used with applications that don't want or 
need namespace awareness (eg dtd based) but xslt requires a namespace 
aware parser, there is no way in xpath to select an element whose local 
name includes a colon.

David


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  • Re: namespace-unawareness
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