RE: [xml-dev] A multi-step approach on defining object-oriented nature of DOM

["Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Champion [mailto:mc@xegesis.org] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 5:38 PM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] A multi-step approach on defining 
> object-oriented nature of DOM
> 
> 
> 8/20/2002 8:23:51 PM, "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> They don't find it a teensy bit confusing that a namespace 
> declaration looks and smells like an attribute in XML syntax 
> and the DOM, but the Infoset (and SAX?) says that 
> declarations aren't in the attribute list for an element, and 
> XPath treats the in-scope namespace as a non-attribute property of 
> an element and doesn't (IIRC) represent the declaration at all?

Like I said Joe Blow developer isn't reading W3C specs. Besides
implementers who cares about the infoset? Secondly I've never seen any
of our users mention attempting to query for a namespace decl. 
 
> They aren't confused when HTTP says that various 
> capitalizations of the same URI retrieve the same 
> representation of a resource, but that XML namespace 
> processors consider them distinct?

I've not seen any complaints about people expecting namespace decls to
allow various capitalizations to refer to the same URI as DNS does with
HTTP URLs. 

> Your users are a lot smarter than I am!

Probably because they don't bother to read the specs and look for
philosophical loop holes like a number of people on XML-DEV. 


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