Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > On Oct 3, 2009, at 2:31 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: > >> Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >>> ... >>> That is true. >>> Is it ok that in an XML document, the API would give different >>> answers than the built-in XML namespace mechanism? Would it be >>> acceptable to encourage consumers to process XML content based on >>> "effective namespace URI" instead of based on actual Namespaces in >>> XML processing? >> > ... >> >> I would hope that that API gave the same answers for XML documents, >> and would only differ in HTML. > > Sam suggested an API that is implementable in pure ECMAScript > (presumably it works by looking at ancestor elements to find namespace > declarations). That would not give the same answer for an XML document > as namespaceURI. > ... Given an XML document, the DOM in UAs does support L2 (or am I missing something?). In which case a pure script implementation could just delegate to namespaceURI, and thus return the same result. BR, JulianReceived on Saturday, 3 October 2009 16:11:01 GMT
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