> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Champion [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 5:38 PM
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> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] A multi-step approach on defining
> object-oriented nature of DOM
>
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> 8/20/2002 8:23:51 PM, "Dare Obasanjo" <> wrote:
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> They don't find it a teensy bit confusing that a namespace
> declaration looks and smells like an attribute in XML syntax
> and the DOM, but the Infoset (and SAX?) says that
> declarations aren't in the attribute list for an element, and
> XPath treats the in-scope namespace as a non-attribute property of
> an element and doesn't (IIRC) represent the declaration at all?
Like I said Joe Blow developer isn't reading W3C specs. Besides
implementers who cares about the infoset? Secondly I've never seen any
of our users mention attempting to query for a namespace decl.
> They aren't confused when HTTP says that various
> capitalizations of the same URI retrieve the same
> representation of a resource, but that XML namespace
> processors consider them distinct?
I've not seen any complaints about people expecting namespace decls to
allow various capitalizations to refer to the same URI as DNS does with
HTTP URLs.
> Your users are a lot smarter than I am!
Probably because they don't bother to read the specs and look for
philosophical loop holes like a number of people on XML-DEV.
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