RE: FW: Selectors API in Last Call

John,

This was your latest email to which I referred on
today's telcon.  Let us know what if any action
you recommend XML Core take. 

paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan@ccil.org] 
> Sent: Sunday, 2007 December 23 11:05
> To: Grosso, Paul
> Cc: public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
> Subject: Re: FW: Selectors API in Last Call
> 
> Grosso, Paul scripsit:
> > 
> > Any volunteers to review this for XML Core?
> 
> I have just done so (it's short enough).  The only XML Core 
> issue I see is that a great
> deal of fuss is made about the possibility of supporting 
> case-insensitive namespace
> prefixes by providing a suitable namespace resolver object 
> (or function) that case-folds
> the prefix before mapping it to a namespace.  Probably 10% of 
> the document is concerned
> with this possibility.
> 
> I don't see what it's all about.  Obviously a general-purpose 
> resolver could accept
> not only prefixes in the wrong case, but prefixes spelled 
> backwards, too.  What of it?
> 
> -- 
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>

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