Wes Moulder wrote:

> Ya'll might not like me stepping in here, but I have two questions 
> about this:
>

Hi Wes! You are always welcome here.

> a) isn't a local part of "one:two" illegal?
>

I would think so...

> b) Why not make your QName do both from the valueOf() method?
>

I'm a bit concerned about how code that depended on this feature would 
react if, some how, another implementation of this interface were to be 
picked up in the classpath. Is there a compelling need to support this 
other syntax?

> It should be trivially easy to figure out which one of the two forms 
> the string is in, and since a : is illegal in an NCName (what the 
> localpart is defined as), it shouldn't be difficult to figure out 
> which form it's in.
>

I agree that technically it would not be difficult.

- Sam Ruby

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