Re: [xml] xmlwriter and namespaces

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 07:15:23AM -0400, Rob Richards wrote:
> Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > > For performance reasons, unlike .NET, this change only tracks the 
> > > namespace on the starting element tag rather than within the entire 
> > > scope of the element the namespace was declared on.
> > >    
> >
> >  Fine, the problem is only serious when it's on the same element.
> > Propagation of the set of namespace in scope would allow the check
> > in the subtree in a relatively cheap way though (a bit similar to
> > what SAX2 parser does).
> >  
> Had originally started down that path but really didn't think slowing 
> down writing for the additional needed checks were worth it at this 
> point. Can always revisit later.

  Yeah, I agree.

> >  Just double check indentation before commiting it was looking a bit
> > weird in the patch, but that could be an effect of the patch.
> >  
> Thanks for pointing that out. Its the mix of tab/space indenting. Will 
> fix that.

  :-)

Daniel

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