[Q] How should SAX support Namespaces?

[David Megginson]

Gavin Thomas Nicol writes:

 > > At 07:32 AM 7/20/98 -0400, David Megginson wrote:
 > > >3. Revised org.xml.sax.AttributeList and org.xml.sax.DocumentHandler
 > > >   to include the namespace as a separate (possibly-null) argument:
 > > >
 > > >   startElement("urn:www.megginson.com", "doc", ...)
 > > >   endElement("urn:www.megginson.com", "doc", ...)
 > > 
 > > I'd go for #3. -Tim
 > 
 > I'd prefer seperate events:
 >       enterNamespace(String prefix, String urn);
 >       leaveNamespace(String prefix, String urn);

The problem is that you wouldn't be able to express something like the
following (assume that the namespaces associated with "DOCBOOK:" and
"LC:" are properly declared):

  <DOCBOOK:book LC:refno="QA76.64.D47 1994">
   [...]
  </DOCBOOK:book>


All the best,


David

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David Megginson                 david at megginson.com
           http://www.megginson.com/

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