Why SAX needs namespace support

[Borden, Jonathan]

Jonathan Borden
JABR Technology Corp.
http://jabr.ne.mediaone.net

> >
> I'm all for fully qualified names, but I don't see why we should
> repeat the
> error of using "http://" names for things that are not accessible via the
> HTTP protocol. What's wrong with
> "org.xml.sax.option.validation"?
>
> Or is this overkill anyway? Why not just say that names beginning with
> "sax:" are reserved?
>

	uris aren't required to the http: prefix, nor are they required to employ
DNS for name resolution. for example:

	"urn:org:sax:option:validation"

	and

	"urn:org:sax" are both perfectly acceptable namespace uris.

Jonathan Borden
http://jabr.ne.mediaone.net




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