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Michael Kay wrote:
>>This preserves the semantics according to [REC-xml-names] --
>>it's the namespace URI that's important, not the prefix --
>>and preserves *most* of the Infoset semantics. ...
>>
>>This last might be problematic ...
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>If we didn't have prefixes-in-content then we wouldn't have a problem. If we
>only had to preserve *most* of the semantics then we wouldn't have a
>problem.
>
>Putting aside wishful thinking about what might have been, does anyone have
>a solution that works in the real world?
>
>
I found Joe's pledge for sanity very helpful. For prefixes in content,
it can be enough to save a document-wide mapping from prefixes to
namespaces. Of course this does not allow redeclarations etc, and
rightly so, I find.
The annoying exceptions can very clearly be marked by any implementation
as not supported, and it is quite easy to turn an unsupported XML
document into a supported one (changing, moving prefixes).
People *are* indeed always using the same prefixes (xsl, xsd, xsi...)
and declaring them in the root...
regards,
Burak Emir
http://lamp.epfl.ch/~buraq
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