RE: treatment of ns prefixes by intermediaries

Section 2.7.4[1] states

"All XML infoset properties of a message MUST be preserved with the
following exceptions"

Given that ns prefixes are properties of element information items ( for
better or worse ), they have to be preserved.

Gudge

[1]
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/CR-soap12-part1-20021219/#soapinterminfoset

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Fallside [mailto:fallside@us.ibm.com] 
> Sent: 07 February 2003 17:56
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> Subject: treatment of ns prefixes by intermediaries
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> This question came up during an implementer's interop test 
> session: Is an intermediary obliged to preserve namespace 
> prefixes? The spec says nothing explicitly (that we could 
> find) but appears to implicitly oblige intermediaries to 
> preserve them. What did the WG intend?
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