xml-dev - Re: SAX2: Interning names in namespaces

[David Megginson <david@megginson.com>]

Stefan Haustein <stefan.haustein@trantor.de> writes:

> Do you know if an official recommendation for storing a
> namespace-name pair in a single string exists? I switched to
> combined names in my application because they are much simpler to
> handle than pairs of separate string objects.

Nothing official, but a lot of people seem to use James Clark's
recommendation of {URI}localpart syntax.  We seriously considered that 
for SAX2, but there was a strong demand for providing the two in
separate strings.


All the best,


David

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