Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> QNames in attribute values and element content are a huge mess and a
> big mistake. I've seen them complexify virtually every significant
> system I've worked on that had to process arbitrary XML documents.
> They were a problem for JDOM. They were a problem for XInclude. They
> were a problem when using DOM and SAX. They make XML significantly
> more complex.
If I may add some other specs to the list, they are a problem for
XPointer and Canonical XML as well... and they are very difficult to
process with XSLT 1.0 too (just remember the mess it has been to
transform a version of W3C XML Schema into the next one before it went rec).
Eric
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