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> > This is probably the kind of thing that only interests conformance
> > testers, but:
> >
> > With the following XML document, I get three different results from
> > different parsers.
> >
> > <doc xmlns:xml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"/>
> >
> > Crimson rejects it.
> > AElfred accepts it, and doesn't notify the namespace to the SAX2
> > ContentHandler.
> > Piccolo accepts it, and does notify the namespace to the SAX2
> > ContentHandler.
> >
> > Any opinions on which is right?
>
> I think it's pretty clear that Crimson has a bug here. I find Piccolo's notification quite surprising.
>
> Just a couple of brief results from Python parsers:
>
> $ cat foo.xml
> <doc xmlns:xml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"/>
> $ 4xml foo.xml
> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><doc/>
> $ xmlproc_parse foo.xml
> xmlproc version 0.70
>
> Parsing 'foo.xml'
> Parse complete, 0 error(s) and 0 warning(s)
I should point out that 4xml is namespace-aware and xmlproc is not. This also leads me to discover a bug in 4xml, which accepts an invalid declaration for the prefix "xml". Thanks to this thread, I'll be sure that's fixed :-)
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