- From: <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 09:20:45 -0500
- To: james.anderson@mecomnet.de
- cc: "www-dom@w3.org" <www-dom@w3.org>
>? Or could it be that the DOM constrains one to always manage consistent >namespace nodes simultaneous with tree mutations? please tell me it >isn't so. The DOM is always internally consistant, since each node carries its own namespace URI. It may or may not contain all the namespace declaration attributes in the right places, or have the prefixes matched up properly if those declarations do exist. The DOM is being allowed to depart from canonical form, just a bit, in part because we were concerned that continuously enforcing those restrictions could impose a significant amount of overhead. But it should contain all the data needed to allow us to reconcile those departures. If you think about this as a namespace_normalize() operation, it may make more sense. In Level 2, that normalization task is left as an exercise for the reader, but Level 3 is expected to provide a standardized version. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research
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