Why SAX needs namespace support

[james anderson]

John Cowan wrote:
> 
> You still are not acknowledging my point: the application must have
> access to the currently-in-scope mappings, because it may need to
> convert to universal format a QName that the parser cannot detect
> as such (because it appears as an attribute value or as character data).
> 

I have acknowledged it. My answers may well have been burried in much to
convoluted responses. I have suggested that either
a) the application be permitted to perform these tasks in the parser's dynamic
context, or
b) the DOM designers have to recognize that they're dealing with an instance
of the "upwards funarg" problem.

There are known mechanism to manage the latter. My experience is that the
former is much more effective.


xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev at ic.ac.uk
Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/
To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo at ic.ac.uk the following message;
(un)subscribe xml-dev
To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo at ic.ac.uk the following message;
subscribe xml-dev-digest
List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa at ic.ac.uk)