[XML-SIG] SAX Namespaces

[Uche Ogbuji]

Paul Prescod:

> The W3C has decided that it is appropriate in specs "above XML" to query
> and navigate based on the prefix even if namespace processing is turned
> on. Even if we decided that that decision is questionable here, there is
> nothing we can do about it. Minidom (for one) indexes on both qname and
> uri/localname pair. The user may use this facility to blow their feet
> off but they might also have good reason for doing so.

Hmm.  I'd be careful with this statement.  I hardly think the W3C has a 
coherent idea how to use prefixes: take, for example, the fact that qnames are 
expanded differently in XSLT and XPath, which were developed by the very same 
WG.


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