Re: ANN: SAX Filters for Namespace Processing

[Simon Fell <xml@zaks.demon.co.uk>]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 20:35:27 -0400, in xml you wrote:

>Last week at XTech (part of the O'Reilly Open Source Conference), Aaron
>Skonnard gave an excellent presentation on Namespaces.  He brought up a
>couple of issues which continue to bother me, but which have pretty much
>no single (imposable) solution.
>
>The first problem was the case of unqualified elements inside of
>namespace-qualified elements:
><p:person xmlns:p="http://simonstl.com/person">
><givenName>Chip</givenName>
><familyName>Skillet</familyName>
></p:person>
>
>I'd really prefer to see things like this written as:
><p:person xmlns:p="http://simonstl.com/person">
><p:givenName>Chip</p:givenName>
><p:familyName>Skillet</p:familyName>
></p:person>
>
>So, I wondered, why not write a filter that would convert from the first
>form to the second form?

As the two fragments you give are not equivalent, I'm a little
confused as to why you'd want to do this ?

Tx
Simon