- From: Joe Lapp <jlapp@webmethods.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:37:20 -0500
- To: "David E. Cleary" <davec@progress.com>, "Asir S Vedamuthu" <asirv@webmethods.com>, "Www-Xml-Schema-Comments@W3. Org" <www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org>
- Cc: "W3c-Xml-Schema-Ig" <w3c-xml-schema-ig@w3.org>, "Ningang chen" <nchen@webmethods.com>
At 09:33 AM 12/13/00 -0500, David E. Cleary wrote: >The DOM does absolutly no validation when creating an XML document. If you >do not use the DOM to add xmlns attributes, it will create invalid XML, but >it won't stop you from adding attributes and elements that use namespaces. >So it is up to the application that is using the DOM to do the right thing I apologize for being ignorant about the terminology, but is the schema processor considered to be one such 'application'? >if it wants valid XML. If there are no xmlns attributes that define >namespace prefixes, it isn't valid. The term SUPERFICIAL PREFIX should be >immediatly struck from the record and never used again, because there is no >such thing. Ooo, that was kind of harsh. Seeing these two posts I can only conclude that there is such a thing in one mind but not in another. Joe Lapp W3C Advisory Committee Representative webMethods, Inc.
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