- From: Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:02:20 -0400
- To: Mikael Ståldal <d96-mst-ingen-reklam@d.kth.se>
- CC: www-dom@w3.org
"Mikael Ståldal" wrote: > Either way, I think it's important that the DOM2 spec makes it clear > and explicit whether null or the empty string should be used, or if > both are (must be) accepted. > > It's not very important which one is choosen, but I would prefer to use > the empty string as no namespace and explicitly disallow null. That > would be consistent with SAX2. After a few emails, we clarified the spec as following: Note that although the XML specification defines that using the empty string for a namespace URI is equivalent to unsetting the namespace, because the DOM does no lexical checking, the empty string will be treated as a real namespace URI in DOM Level 2 methods. Applications must use the value null as the namespaceURI parameter for methods if they wish to have no namespace. Philippe
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