Re: [Sax-devel] Consensus? expected local name for non-namespace qualified elements

[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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