Re: A plea for Sanity

> I'm afraid this misses the point.  Undeclaring an unused
> namespace prefix *cannot* change the interpretation of any
> element names, attribute names, or QNames in content.
> Since undeclaring a namespace prefix which *is* used
> would cause an error, there is no compelling reason
> to support this feature.

A minor point: undeclaring namespaces which should not be in scope
causes the use of supposed-to-be-unbound prefixes to correctly produce
an error, when otherwise they might be incorrectly accepted.

-- Richard

Received on Thursday, 22 August 2002 12:28:06 UTC