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Posted to j-dev@xerces.apache.org by Ronald Bourret <rp...@rpbourret.com> on 2002/06/03 08:49:51 UTC

Re: [xml-dev] RE: [Sax-devel] Re: SAX survey: expected local name for non-namespace qualified elements

"Simon St.Laurent" wrote:
> 
> At 12:42 PM 6/2/2002 -0700, Yuval Oren wrote:
> ><my:doc/>
> >
> >With namespace processing off, SAX2 compliant parsers can provide a
> >localName value of either "" or "doc", while qName must be "my:doc". If this
> >were changed in a SAX 2.1 release, 2.1-compliant parsers would always
> >provide a localName value of "my:doc". That would bring us back to square
> >one: you can't rely on localName when namespace processing is off.
> 
> And my point is that the localName is "my:doc" and the QName is meaningless
> in this case.

Agreed.

-- Ron

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