- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:55:07 +0200
- To: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Cc: public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
* Lachlan Hunt wrote:
>Possibly. The algorithm says:
>if ( Element's namespace != null and Element's prefix == prefix ) {
> ...
>}
>
>Since "" == null, I guess technically that means either should be
>supported. But the definition of the prefix parameter states
>
> "If this parameter is null, the method will return the default
> namespace URI if any."
>
>So the spec is really unclear about the issue. I suppose, if we go back
>to the NSResolver function, I could make it pass "" instead of null
>anyway, and then get the DOM Core spec fixed.
http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/core.html#Namespaces-Considerations
Applications should use the value null as the namespaceURI parameter
for methods if they wish to have no namespace. In programming
languages where empty strings can be differentiated from null, empty
strings, when given as a namespace URI, are converted to null. This is
true even though the DOM does no lexical checking of URIs.
This can't be much clearer really.
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