[XML-SIG] SAX 2.0 names

[Greg Stein]

On 1 Mar 2000, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
> * THOMAS PASSIN
> | 
> | This sounds much like my original proposal for a nested
> | tuple. Perhaps ((localname,uri),prefix).  Lars pointed out that the
> | java SAX2 people seem to want the raw name - I'm not convinced since
> | you need the namespace to confirm what the localname is supposed to
> | mean, not the rawname.  Comparisons are very easy.
> 
> Not easy enough, I think.  With a pair or an object you can do
> 
>   name1 == name2
> 
> but with nested tuples it becomes
> 
>   name1[0] == name2[0]
> 
> which is both slower and more awkward. So I don't like this solution,
> mainly because it's more awkward, and also because it bugs me that
> names, in this representation, cannot be compared with == directly.

Dunno where the nested tuple idea comes from, but... bleck.

Just use (localname, uri, prefix). Why make it more difficult?

-g

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