Re: startPrefixMapping for xmlns?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elliotte Harold" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 1:46 PM


> Here's one I'm not sure of. ContentHandler.startPrefixMapping says
> 
> There should never be start/endPrefixMapping events for the "xml" 
> prefix, since it is predeclared and immutable.
> 
> What about the xmlns prefix? Should we say something like this:
> 
> Likewise, there should never be start/endPrefixMapping events for the 
> "xml" prefix, regardless of the setting of the xmlns-uris feature, 
> because whichever way xmlns-uris is set, the xmlns prefix is predeclared 
> and immutable.
> 
> Or is this maybe not true, and SAX does fire prefix mapping events for 
> xmlns?

AFAIK declaring xmlns would be a well-formedness error (but not for xml),
so it seems unnecessary to state the above.

Karl


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