I've just returned from Kentucky and read through the messages of the last few days. There's clearly a significant amount of disagreement on what does and what should happen when namespace processing is turned *off*. However, there seems to be nearly unanimous agreement on what happens when namespace processing is turned *on*. In particular, I am prepared to offer the following tentative consensus:
When the feature http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces has the value true (as it does by default), SAX 2.0 parsers *must* report a non-empty local name for all elements and attributes, whether namespace qualified or not. A parser that reports the local name as the empty string when http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces is true is simply not compliant with the SAX 2.0 specification. Does anyone want to stick their hand up and disagree with this statement? -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
