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* Alex Milowski <alexml@milowski.org> [2005-04-12 16:48]:
>
> On Apr 12, 2005, at 8:30 AM, Elliotte Harold wrote:
>
> >Alex Milowski wrote:
> >
> >>In smallx you stream info items--not SAX. As such, when you receive
> >>a start tag you get the name, attributes, and in-scope namespaces.
> >>In SAX, those are separate callbacks and implementing against that
> >>is much harder.
> >
> >That's blatantly incorrect. Names and attributes are not separate
> >callbacks in SAX. They are passed as arguments to startElement.
> >In-scope namespaces do require separate callbacks, but that's rarely
> >needed.
>
> Yep. I was thinking of the prefix mappings (startPrefixMapping &
> endPrefixMapping).
> ...typing to fast without thinking.
>
> In-scope namespaces are needed for many applications--including XSLT.
> I also embed
> QName values in many of my applications and there I also need in-scope
> namespaces to
> resolve those QName values.
>
> I still find SAX hard to implement against in terms of "XML >
> Components". It is OK for a parser interface. That's my personal
> preference though...
In my SAX library, XStrategy, I combined namespaces and events.
The XStrategy framwork maintains a stack of namespaces in scope
by default. It seemed impossible to get anything done without it.
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