Re: qualified name argument to startElement

At 5:25 PM +0200 4/26/04, ?Mikael St=E5ldal wrote:

>I have an application which uses the SAX ContentHandler interface as a
>general pipeline for XML data. The application (which is not a parser)
>invokes methods on a ContentHandler, and sometimes the XML data is
>programmatically generated, i.e. not originating from XML source. In that
>case there are no prefixes and no qualified names (only namespace URI:s
>and local names), and it would be a PITA to have to generate
>namespace prefixes which would not be used anyway.

You would not have to do this. You would just=20
pass the local name for each argument. That is=20
you'd pass the same String object twice in the=20
method call. A qualified name is *not* a prefixed=20
name, though the SAX docs are misleading on this=20
point, and we should probably fix that too.
-- 

   Elliotte Rusty Harold
   [email protected]
   Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
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tA


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