[xml] Re: Refactoring of the SAX interface for namespace support.

[Steinar Bang <sb dod no>]

> > > > > Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>:

> The Java SAX has been extended to handle namespace. I did look at
> the new API provided by expat :

It isn't all that new, is it?  I looked at it in 2001, and at the time
I was using an old version of expat (ie. while it was still maintained
by James Clark, and not the sourceforge version).

[snip!]
> "Constructs a new parser that has namespace processing in
> effect. Namespace expanded element names and attribute names are
> returned as a concatenation of the namespace URI, sep, and the local
> part of the name. This means that you should pick a character for
> sep that can't be part of a legal URI."

>   I really don't think this is an appropriate API for libxml2, it looses
> the prefix values,

FWIW losing the prefix values was the exact reason I couldn't use
expat's built-in namespace support.

I ended up writing my own namespace handling on top of expat.