SAX2: Namespace proposal

[Hill, Les]

David Megginson writes:
> Hill, Les writes:
>  > 	startNamespace("foo")
>  > 	startNamespace("baz")
>  > 	startElement("bar", atts)
>  > 
>  > which namespace is "bar" in?
> 
> That's a separate question -- the idea of the original suggestion is
> that NamespaceContext would not be nested -- in the worst case, there
> would have to be start/endNamespaceContext events for every element.
> This is separate from the question of reporting the scope of 
> Namespace 
> declarations.

I must have missed that nuance.  In fact I am still missing it :)

If the element name has its own contextual information (i.e. using compound
names+), then yes, the namespace scoping is orthogonal.  If the element name
does not have the contextual information, then namespace scoping is crucial.
Unfortunately, startNamespace()/endNamespace() isn't good enough (see above
:)

What am I missing?

+The original event sequence read as using simple Strings and NOT using
compound names mostly due to the second sequence in the message explicitly
identifying the namespace.

Regards,

Les Hill
Senior Architect
Excelergy

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