[XML-SIG] DOM and empty namespaces

[Uche Ogbuji]

> > I would like to add an assertion in the NS methods of 4DOM, to make sure
> > that they are not called with empty strings as the namespaceURI. 
> 
> I think an empty strings is valid as a namespaceURI. If so, it would
> be undesirable to reject it.

I don't think so, and I think it took the www-uri mailing list 3000+ messages 
and a lot of hot flames to reject relative URI references.  Luckily, I wasn't 
there.

At any rate, XMLNS 1.0 itself reserves the empty string as nsref for 
"undefining" namespaces.


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