XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

Michael Kay wrote:

> The more people come up with different ways of modelling namespaces, the
> more convinced I become that James Clark's "namespace node" model is the
> simplest and most elegant way of doing it. The main problem with it is that
> it requires a lot of cleverness to implement efficiently: but it can be
> done.

The Clark model is the simplest and most elegant only to the extent that 
one has to keep track of namespace bindings in attribute values and 
PCDATA. I remain convinced that allowing namespace bindings to escape 
from XML names into attribute values and element content was a colossal 
mistake. However, given that this mistake was made and has been embedded 
in numerous other technologies such as XPath and the W3C XML Schema 
Language, I suspect you're right and the Clark model is the best we can do

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