Re: [Q] How should SAX support Namespaces?

David Megginson (david@megginson.com)
Mon, 20 Jul 1998 17:22:25 -0400


Dan Brickley writes:

> Yes. It's also likely that some people will be interested in using
> namespace prefixes within the values of attributes. So the prefix<->URI
> mapping needs to be accessible if <ABC:DEF XYZ="ABC:someNameHere"> is to
> be intelligible, ie if the "ABC" in "ABC:someNameHere" is to be hooked up
> to a URI.

This is a good argument for making namespace declarations available.
Should this go in a new handler type, NamespaceHandler?

All the best,

David

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