[XML-SIG] SAX Namespaces

[Paul Prescod]

Greg Stein wrote:
> 
> Each of these presumes that the namespace processing can be turned off. Is
> that an important/required feature? IMO, the NS processing can/should always
> occur; they are an integral part of XML processing today. 

I do a lot of XML processing that doesn't use namespaces. So, I guess do
all of the SAX 1.0 and Pyxie users. I think that a lot of beginning XML
users do not want to care about namespaces until they have to which is
why option 4 made namespace handling "invisible" until they turned it
on.

> [ nit: how is #5 different from #4? ]

It was supposed to be the tuple-in-tuple version with the dynamic object
type.
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