Re: [xml-dev] namespace-unawareness

[Michael Sokolov <sokolov@ifactory.com>]

On 11/18/2010 6:24 AM, Martin Honnen wrote:
> 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.
>
Thanks everyone!  I think I've got it now.

-Mike