Re: SAX and xmlns (again)

[email protected] (Robin Berjon) writes:
>However I do not believe that such political decisions should
>influence SAX. SAX is there to help people get the job done. I don't
>think it's up to you, me, the SAX project, or whoever to dictate such
>choices. PerlSAX2 and it's companion XML::NamespaceSupport have an
>option to switch between both behaviours. Users use it. They get their
>jobs done more easily. They're happier that way. So can't we forget
>about what's right and do what's best?

I think Elliotte suggested that it has already been done, and in a
manner which accurately reflects the nature of the change:
>For those users who really, really want to put the xmlns prefix in a 
>namespace (though for the life of me I can't imagine why, maybe it 
>makes it marginally easier to feed SAX events into a DOM tree or some 
>such) then SAX 2.0.1 includes a feature that can be turned on to use 
>the namespace URI specified in the errata. However, this is wisely 
>false by default.

That seems to me like a completely appropriate response to the problems
created by this errata situation.
-- 
Simon St.Laurent
Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets
Errors, errors, all fall down!
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