> Is it really necessary for the parser to deal with namespaces at
> all (if we don't consider namespace aware validation for the moment)?
Depends what you think "the parser" is. My design was for something
that a parser could implement if it wanted to, but could also be
layered over a ns-blind parser.
> Also I think the startNamespaceScope events should occur
> before the corresponding startElement event since the element
> is itself inside the scope it declares.
A very good point, which I gladly adopt.
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