Re: [xml-dev] namespace-unawareness

[Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@gmx.de>]

Michael Sokolov wrote:

> However, although the question seems to be purely academic at this
> point, I'm still wondering why there is an option for
> namespace-aware=false. Perhaps at some point in the past there was an
> idea of backwards compatibility that is no longer relevant?

I showed an example with Java where it is possible to use a not 
namespace aware DOM, thus if you restrict yourself to DOM you can still 
use that option. As others have pointed out if you want to use XPath or 
XSLT it is not an option.

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