- From: james anderson <james.anderson@mecomnet.de>
- Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 11:52:13 +0100
- To: "www-dom@w3.org" <www-dom@w3.org>
What does one do with uri-values outside of the NCName value domain?
Dieter Köhler wrote:
>
> > ...
> > There are folks who want to generate
> > a DOM with only localnames and URIs, and assign prefixes as necessary
> > during serialization. If we didn't allow qualified names to collide, they
> > couldn't do so.
>
> Nevertheless we should be more aware of XML-wellformedness, since
> namespaces are semantic sugar on XML. Your folks can do their
> serialization by first using the URI as the prefix and then replacing
> the prefix by a shorter version (Delphi example):
>
> element.setAttributeNS('thisIsOurVeryVeryLongURI',
> 'thisIsOurVeryVeryLongURI:a',
> 'value');
Received on Thursday, 2 March 2000 05:45:58 UTC