Re: [xml] libxml2 and default namespaces

[Rob Richards <rrichards ctindustries net>]

Paul Boddie wrote:
> Perhaps the real issue is whether a namespace set on an element whose 
> qualified name is unprefixed can be discarded in the serialisation. That I 
> may have declared the namespace, but since no prefix is specified I haven't 
> (according to some interpretations) actually used it, and that the 
> information can be legitimately discarded. Such reasoning sounds dubious to 
> me, but it wouldn't surprise me if such loopholes existed in the 
> specifications.
>   
My last comment I promise :)

How can you discard it? It is now the default namespace. The element now 
belongs to this namespace. Discarding it now means the element is not in 
the namespace. At I said before, discarding it means the serialized 
version no longer means the same as the one being built.
Rob