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- From: james anderson <James.Anderson@mecomnet.de>
- To: XMLDev list <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 12:11:46 +0100
i had understood
{"","a",""},
from the example, to denote a name in a namespace for which there would have
been a declaration, namely a binding such as
<... xmlns="" ... >
for the ignominious "null" namespace. how does this come to correspond to
{ undeclared, "a", valid-prefix } ?
i agree that an "==" implementation needs to account for this, but didn't
think it was nonconformant.
David Brownell wrote:
>
> David Megginson wrote:
> >
> > Clark C. Evans writes:
> >
> > > On Sun, 26 Dec 1999 uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com wrote:
> > > >
> > > > {"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml", "a", ""} ==
> > > > {"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml", "a", "html"}.
> > >
> > > {"","a",""} != {"","a","html"}
> >
> > As I understood it, the suggestion was that
> >
> > {"", "a", ""} == {"", "a", "html"}
>
> Actually I think the namespace spec defines
>
> { undeclared, "a", valid-prefix }
>
> as "namespace-nonconformant", AKA some kind of error which they
> neglected to describe well enough to support portable APIs.
>
> Meaning that any application choosing to use such a "Name"
> class (which IMHO is a fine notion) needs to treat this value
> with care ... IEEE floating point math has a variety of sorts
> of "NaN" values, perhaps useful models can be found there.
> I'd suggest that most "==" tests against such a Name ought to
> fail, and ordering tests should cause exceptions.
>
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