qualified name argument to startElement

Currently in ContentHandler, the JavaDoc for startElement() says,

the qualified name is required when the namespace-prefixes property is 
true, and is optional when the namespace-prefixes property is false (the 
default).

I would like to change this to say, "the qualified name is always 
required." That is, regardless of how the features are set. In practice, 
this is how *all* SAX parsers written in Java behave, and much client 
code is written under the assumption that this is true.

Indeed this is how most people except David Brownell interpreted the 
spec for a couple of years until I pointed out some minor 
inconsistencies, and he rewrote the spec to more clearly reflect his 
interpretation of the then unclear parts. Nonetheless, Brownell's 
parser, like everyone else's, does in fact always report the qualfiied 
name.

Let's make it official. Every parser acts like it is already, and 
blessing this as the required behavior would make code a lot safer going 
forward without actually harming backwards compatibility.

--
Elliotte Rusty Harold



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