> Ronald Bourret wrote:
>
>> I don't see what harm this would do. In practice, it is what happens
>> anyway. For example, if an element/attribute name is not in a namespace,
>> DOM level 2 uses a null for the URI and SAX 2 uses an empty string.
I'm in part responsible for the empty string. The semantic is the
same - there's no namespace name. I argued for the empty string in
SAX2 because in java it's convenient to write
if (elObject.getNamespace().equals("http://my.namespace.com/"))
and this always works if "no namespace" is signaled by an
empty string. It's also coherent since the NS rec explicitly
rules out the empty string ever being used as a namespace name.
-Tim
