SAX2 Namespace Support

[David Brownell]

David Megginson wrote:
> 
> Ray Waldin <rwaldin at pacbell.net> writes:
> 
> > Overall, very nice!
> >
> > My only concern is that LexicalHandler should be required by all parsers.
> > Otherwise you will get "fully compliant" SAX2 parsers which cannot be used to
> > resolve QNames found in attribute values against in-scope namespace
> > declarations. There are many examples where that's critical:
> >
> > - evaluate XPath expression (XLST, XPointer, etc.)
> > - resolve XLink locator role (see http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink/#link-semantics)
> > - follow XML Schema references (see
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#refSchemaConstructs)
> >
> > and probably more to come...
> >
> > IMHO, LexicalHandler must be supported by all SAX2 parsers.
> 
> Or else we can put the callbacks back into a separate
> NamespaceHandler, so that parsers are not forced to report comments,
> CDATA section boundaries, and other noise as well.

I certainly prefer to see marginally relevant stuff like
comments and CDATA boundaries remain marginal.

The core data models of XML are elements, text, and (for
some) PIs.  Namespace-aware element (and attribute) processing
won't change that; most of the rest is noise.


> Do others agree that the scope of NS declarations is essential
> (i.e. shouldn't be optional)?  I knew that XSLT needed it, but I
> hadn't realized that so many other apps were now relying on resolving
> prefixes in attribute values and character data -- I need to keep more
> up to date on the specs.

Those three specs listed above seem to be a convincing argument
for exposing the capability if it's already in the parser.

- Dave

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