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  • From: Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>
  • To: peter murray-rust <pm286 AT cam.ac.uk>
  • Cc: xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] Higher level namespace declarations for compactness
  • Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 07:28:54 -0400

peter murray-rust wrote:

I am not clear why the element prefixes have to be hardcoded other than for serialization. The only workaround I can think of is to copy the nodes and change the prefixes.

Another big reason: canonical XML and everything that depends on this including XML digital signatures.

Related (weaker) reason: testing

There are just too many things that break when you rewrite prefixes. :-(

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