[XML-SIG] SAX Namespaces

[Paul Prescod]

tpassin@home.com wrote:
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> ...
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> * Passing along the prefix could be very useful for some people, but it is
> basically a convenience.

**** I want to stress the following point. ****

The prefix is necessary for the DOM and for XPath as well as for all
specs that use XPath: XPointer, XLink, XSLT and Schematron.

Let me say it another way: it is the right of a person writing an
application based on the DOM, XPath or XSLT to work entirely based on
rawnames or even just prefixes. It is an exaggeration to say that there
is "no way to know the prefix." It is relatively easy to hard-code
prefixes in your DTDs, and thus enforce consistent usage of them in
documents.

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