Re: Namespace treatment, cloning and node.supports

> > We've adopted the position stated by the namespace working group, that the
> > prefix is only syntactic sugar and the namespace URI is the "real"
> > information. The prefix is retained primarily as a hint to serialization
> > routines, and is mutable because you may want to hint differently.

For the record, my current set of XML utilities to provide support
for writing out a DOM and fixing up the prefixes on the way out.

Basically, one walks the tree to generate SAX2 events, and there's
a filter on those events to patch up prefixes and declarations.

http://home.pacbell.net/david-b/xml/ ... the "utilities" package.
For Java people.

- Dave

Received on Wednesday, 1 March 2000 17:40:08 UTC