xml-dev - Re: Attributes with Intent (and namespaces)

[Peter Murray-Rust <peter@ursus.demon.co.uk>]

Thank you very much for your suggestion.

At 13:20 01/07/98 +0900, MURATA Makoto wrote:
[...]
>We can implement attribute inheritance by SAX or other event-driven 
>API's (e.g., XML in perl).
>
>We only have to introduce one method of the class DocumentHandler. 
>
>	setInheritedAttributes(String)
>	
>	This sets names of inherited attributes.  By default, 
>	"xml:lang" and "xml:space" are inherited.
>
>An attributeList (the second argument for startElement) 
>now contains attribute-value pairs for inherited 
>attributes.
>
>Does such an API cover your concern?

If we agree on it I think it's undoubtedly the best way forward :-). IOW we
build a public implementation of 'inheritance' - make the code and examples
public and that effectively defines what the community at large understands
by the spec. In this way anyone on the SIG or WGs who has a differently
interpretation can speak up now.

The only qualification is that the API has to be very well documented so we
all agree what it does!

	P.

>
>Of course, this has to become namespace-aware.  That is, the argument 
>of setInheritedAttribute should be a pair of URI and local part.

Of course. And working this out in public would be valuable.


	P.
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