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I've just returned from Kentucky and read through the messages of the
last few days. There's clearly a significant amount of disagreement
on what does and what should happen when namespace processing is
turned *off*. However, there seems to be nearly unanimous agreement
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?
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