- From: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 15:58:57 +0700
- To: David Brownell <db@argon.Eng.Sun.COM>
- CC: xml-names-issues@w3.org
David Brownell wrote: > That is, does this spec increase parsing costs by requiring such > state to be stacked even in event-based parsers which currently > don't need to record such state? They already have to maintain a stack of open element type names. > My suggestion would be to specify the behaviour of a "namespace > processor" -- distinct from an XML processor! -- and define its > behaviours in terms of the data provided to it by an XML processor > (driven either by parsing events or by some parse tree). This > processor would only need markup related data as input. This has to wait until we have a spec for what the output of an XML processor is, but I agree this would be a good way to explain it. James
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