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Posted to j-dev@xerces.apache.org by David Brownell <da...@pacbell.net> on 2002/05/31 18:14:00 UTC
Re: [Sax-devel] Re: SAX survey: expected local name for non-namespace
qualified elements
>> And
>> moreover, I'd certainly _prefer_ that elements not in any namespace
>> still have a localName (regardless of the namespace setting)
>
>
> What is the localName in "foo:bar" and "foo:bar:foo" which are legal
> element names in XML 1.0 and should therefore be passed through when
> namespaces are off?
I'd expect that localName would still be defined to be the syntactic
"strip off the only prefix" transform of qName that it is in other
cases ... so "foo:bar" would become "bar", and "foo:bar:foo" would
be an error (normally reported as an empty localName).
- dave
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Re: [Sax-devel] Consensus? expected local name for non-namespace qualified elements
Posted by Karl Waclawek <ka...@waclawek.net>.
> on what happens when namespace processing is turned *on*. In
> particular, I am prepared to offer the following tentative consensus:
>
> When the feature http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces has the value
> true (as it does by default), SAX 2.0 parsers *must* report a
> non-empty local name for all elements and attributes, whether
> namespace qualified or not. A parser that reports the local name as
> the empty string when http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces is true
> is simply not compliant with the SAX 2.0 specification.
>
> Does anyone want to stick their hand up and disagree with this statement?
OK, I agree.
It's not enough, though.
Karl
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Consensus? expected local name for non-namespace qualified
elements
Posted by Elliotte Rusty Harold <el...@metalab.unc.edu>.
I've just returned from Kentucky and read through the messages of the
last few days. There's clearly a significant amount of disagreement
on what does and what should happen when namespace processing is
turned *off*. However, there seems to be nearly unanimous agreement
on what happens when namespace processing is turned *on*. In
particular, I am prepared to offer the following tentative consensus:
When the feature http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces has the value
true (as it does by default), SAX 2.0 parsers *must* report a
non-empty local name for all elements and attributes, whether
namespace qualified or not. A parser that reports the local name as
the empty string when http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces is true
is simply not compliant with the SAX 2.0 specification.
Does anyone want to stick their hand up and disagree with this statement?
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Re: [Sax-devel] Re: SAX survey: expected local name for non-namespace qualified elements
Posted by Robin Berjon <ro...@knowscape.com>.
On Friday 31 May 2002 18:14, David Brownell wrote:
> > What is the localName in "foo:bar" and "foo:bar:foo" which are legal
> > element names in XML 1.0 and should therefore be passed through when
> > namespaces are off?
>
> I'd expect that localName would still be defined to be the syntactic
> "strip off the only prefix" transform of qName that it is in other
> cases ... so "foo:bar" would become "bar", and "foo:bar:foo" would
> be an error (normally reported as an empty localName).
I don't think that makes much sense... If namespaces are off, then there is
no such thing as a prefix to be stripped off. And raising an error for the
latter would be a strange decision knowing that it's a legal name when
namespaces are off.
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