Subject: Re: The Peace Process: DOM and namespaces... From: Tyler Baker <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 18:45:43 -0500 |
David Megginson wrote: > Rick Ross writes: > > [about preprocessing namespaces for the DOM] > > > Doesn't that presume that a "document" exists? > > Preprocess your information, whatever its source. >From an entire database. Pass over the entire document tree and prepreprocess everything before actually presenting it to the application. This is not practical. In my limited experience on these matters I have seen this tried before and with horrendous results. Nevertheless, it does not take a computer scientist to see the real world problem with this approach. > > There should not be a requirement for the data to get emitted as > > XML, just so it can be reparsed - the XML-implied DOM > > representation would suffice beautifully if not for this namespace > > problem. > > I cannot understand why you would have to do this. There is a big difference between "having to do something" and doing something because it makes perfect sense from a real world perspective. Preprocessing the entire source tree just do handle namespaces hardly makes a case for supporting namespaces at all in a product. You can have the most elaborate features in the world for an application but if they don't work in the real-world problem domains of real people, then they are pretty useless no matter what their original intentions were. "Namespaces in XML" and the hacked up manner in which you need to deal with them in XML is a prime example of a specification not realistically trying to solve the problems of its target audience. Tyler XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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