Re: Revised NamespaceFilter

John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Thu, 13 Aug 1998 16:02:09 -0400


David Megginson wrote:

> Why not use a space? It is forbidden in URIs and XML names as well,
> and looks a little cleaner.

Because UniversalNames are conceptually unitary, and it's hard to
see "http://www.baz.bar/zam FOO" as a unitary object (unless you
come from the ITS world, where " " was the pathname delimiter).

I'm switching to "^", which is ASCII but illegal in both URIs and Names.

I've also simplified the property name for the underlying parser
to just "org.ccil.cowan.sax.NamespaceFilter.useParser".
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> I'm still looking forward to trying out your code, if all of the dust
> in the rest of my life settles before Montr=E9al.

I hope so.

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