SAX2/Java: Towards a final form

[David Megginson]

Stefan Haustein writes:

 > I assume that xmlns and xmlns:* attributes do not occur in the
 > Attributes object, right?

By default, no, unless explicitly requested by the client app.  How
should we handle this?  Here are my current thoughts:

Feature: http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces (default = true)

                        TRUE        false
------------------------------------------------------------------------
uri                     required    optional
localName               required    optional
start/endPrefixMapping  required    optional
NS error reporting      required    forbidden
------------------------------------------------------------------------


Feature: http://xml.org/sax/features/rawnames (default = false)

               true        FALSE
------------------------------------------------------------------------
rawName        required    optional
xmlns* atts    required    forbidden
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Every SAX2 driver *must* support namespaces==true and rawnames==false,
and must use those as the default unless the client explicitly
requests otherwise.

The combination namespaces==false && rawnames==false is not allowed
(setting either to false automatically toggles the other to true).

 > Is "no namespace" reported with a null or empty String (for
 > interned Strings, the equals problem does not exist)?

Empty string sounds like a reasonable suggestion when Namespace
processing is being performed; null when it is not (so that a bugs in
code will show up sooner).

 > Can I assume that namespace URIs are always interned?

That's a good question -- should SAX2 require that all names and
Namespace URIs be interned (i.e. == to the results of
java.lang.String.intern)?


All the best,


David

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