RE: CORE: Re Keith's setAttributeNS vs. setAttributeNodeNS

On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Keith W. Boone wrote:

>Finally, why isn't localName = qualifiedName when a node is created using
>the non-namespace aware methods.

One reason is that names with colons were used by by 
users of namespaces throughout level one.  This would 
produce localnames that have colons in them, which seems 
wrong.

This mixing situation is bound to produce errors in any
case with the application using NS methods.  I like an 
obvious error more than a less-obvious one, that just
causes the program to malfunction for less-obvious
reasons.  So I like a null localname.

Ray Whitmer
ray@xmission.com

Received on Friday, 24 March 2000 17:03:00 UTC