Re: [xml] "Re: [xml] usage of xmlReconciliateNs"'

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 03:22:05PM +0200, Kasimier Buchcik wrote:
> The only solution I can thing of by now is to enable 
> "xmlNewReconciliedNs" to take care of already declared namespaces in the 
> subtree as well, when building new prefix names. Note that 
> "xmlNewReconciliedNs" does not do this by now.
> This is a pain in the ass: every time a reconciliated namespace is 
> needed the whole subtree would have to be searched as well - expensive.
>
> So what would you suggest:
>    1. turtlelize things to preserve already existent namespace 
> declaration structure
>    2. recreate and redeclare every already existent declaration at the 
> top of the given tree (this is currently done) + removing the old, 
> unused declarations (this is currently not done)

  Whetever solution will be good if:
     - it preserves the namespace semantic of all names and attributes
     - it requires only one pass on the whole subtree and the ancestors
I think everything else is details.

Daniel

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