SAX2: Namespace proposal

[David Megginson]

Clark C. Evans writes:

 > This looks very similar to what Ray had proposed a few days ago.

Actually, it's part of what we all came up with for SAX2 last
spring...

 > On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, James Clark wrote:
 > > No.  I need to be able to build a tree that includes the all the
 > > namespace scoping information.  Something like:
 > > 
 > > interface NamespaceDeclHandler {
 > >   void startNamespaceDecl(String prefix, String namespace);
 > >   void endNamespaceDecl();
 > > }
 > > 
 > > with calls to start/endNamespaceDecl outside the calls to the
 > > corresponding start/endElement would do it.
 > 
 > In this case, perhaps leave startElement alone:
 > 
 >   void startElement(String name, AttributeList atts);

Unfortunately, using only the NamespaceDeclHandler makes more work for
applications that care just about Namespace-qualified names, and makes
those applications less efficient (since the parser has probably
already done the work that the application will have to do over): I
agree with James and Tim that such applications will be the most
common, and we should optimize for them.


All the best,


David

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