Re: [xml-dev] A proposal for application level XML 'namespaces'

[John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>]

Andrew Welch scripsit:

> If the prefix-as-the-namespace caught on, you could envisage parsers
> falling back to using the prefix as the namespace where there is no
> existing mapping, making the xmlns optional.

TagSoup (which is about HTML parsing, not XML parsing), does something
like this: if it can't find a prefix declaration for "foo:", it
generates a mapping from "foo:' to "urn:x-prefix:foo".

(Currently it always does this, as it ignores namespace declarations.
That'll be changed in the next version.)

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